Food is prepared in a charity kitchen for displaced Palestinian families who lost their homes in the Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip, in the Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza on May 1, 2026. The war on the Gaza Strip was sparked following the militant Palestinian group Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people. Israel's retaliatory assault on Gaza has killed at least 72,600 people, according to figures from the health ministry that the UN considers reliable. with th majority of Gaza's 2.4 million people being displaced. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP via Getty Images)