Tents are erected on empty land to create a displacement camp for the millions of displaced Palestinian families forced from their homes during Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip 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)