The Monitor’s Gaza correspondent Ghada Abdulfattah paints a powerful portrait today of her fellow Palestinians as they work – and work – to create some semblance of order or home amid the mountains of debris that surround them. Much of it is the remains of buildings they once called home – and making a dent in it, without proper equipment, is daunting.

“Walking in Jabalia, there is a symphony of people removing the rubble and throwing it outside,” says Naim Khader al-Saidi. With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire hanging by a thread, Palestinians in Gaza are scrambling for certainty and survival.