Tensions still high year after Gaza war

Ali Wahdan, a maths teacher from Gaza, lost his wife, 11 members of his family and a leg to Israeli bombardment of the town of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, during last year’s war between Israel and Hamas.

Doctors have since amputated his other leg. His life and prospects have crumbled because of the 50-day war. “The war ended, but my tragedy did not,” said the pale 36-year-old, moving around in a motorised wheelchair. “I spent the past year going from one hospital to another. A year ago, I was a teacher standing before my students. Today, I am helpless to serve even my children.”

People on either side of the war are still struggling with the fallout. Israel and Hamas, too, don’t know if the truce they have is stable or if the next war is just around the corner.