It’s pitch black out on the street near Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The Abu Naji family huddle in their tent near the hospital around a small fire.

After more than two years of war, this time of the night is unfamiliarly quiet, save for some crickets and the cracking sounds the fire makes. Shrouq Abu Naji hands her children a notebook to rip pages out of. This is the only means of maintaining the small flame.

“We haven’t had electricity in … years,” Abu Naji told CBC freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife on Wednesday.

On Oct. 9, 2023, two days after the Hamas attacks on Israel, the Israeli government announced it was cutting off electricity , along with water, food and fuel to Gaza. WATCH | This family lives in darkness in Gaza:

'We haven't had electricity in years' Novem

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