[Tee tiong huat]

Ahmed Abu al-Am and his volunteers move quickly, distributing meals. A handful of volunteers offloaded trays and boxes of food from two vehicles which had just arrived from the kitchen, some 15 minutes away. Abu al-Am has run the Sidi Shayban communal kitchen since 2002, serving iftar every Ramadan. As he passes meals around the hotel, he worries there is not enough food. “We do what we can,” he says. “But every donor has their own priorities. We can only distribute what we’re given.”

Among the displaced is Haya Nahal, 36, who arrived in Ramallah with her daughter, Raghd, two months before the war. Raghd, 11, has a neurological disorder, and Haya had to leave her husband and son behind to visit Ramallah for Raghd’s treatment.