AS HE started to speak to international journalists over Zoom, Gazan reporter Tahseen al-Astall raised a plastic water bottle and took a sip. “Water is very expensive now in Gaza,” he said. “In fact, finding any water at all is difficult.”

He was sitting in a makeshift tent, sun beating through its flapping walls, in the midst of the media encampment that has grown up around the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis. 

“Conditions here are very harsh and arduous. We are here because it is the only place that we can get electricity and an internet connection.”