All sides must work together to ensure that Israel and Palestine step back from the precipice of annihilation, says John Pontifex.

“We need medicine. Many hospitals have been destroyed. Our school has also been damaged but we’re not leaving.”

Contacting us from northern Gaza, Sister Nabila was defiant: “People have nothing, not even the basic essentials. Where would we go? To die in the street? There are old people here, the Missionaries of Charity are with us as well, with a group of disabled and elderly. Where can they go? We will stay with them.”