She and her twin sister, Kholoud, would often go for a walk on the beach at sunset or meet with friends at their favourite hangout, SeaSide cafe.

The twins would spend long evenings there, chatting excitedly about their futures. Shahed had started applying for scholarships to study law abroad. The world, closed to so many in Gaza, seemed like it might open up for her.

When Shahed saw the scale of the destruction of their old neighbourhood on the TV news, she was horrified. Soon after, she and her family decided to leave Gaza City.

They eventually arrived in the southern city of Khan Younis along with hundreds of thousands of other displaced Palestinians.

"No matter where you turn, it's just filled with sad memories," she says. Like many other displaced Palestinians, Shahed is now crowdfunding to support her family.

"I wanted to become a lawyer, but now I am nothing but a girl who collects donations for her family's survival," she says.

No part of Gaza is unscathed. This map shows (in red) where damage has been detected, based on UN analysis of satellite imagery.

For every five buildings, two are damaged (45%) and one is destroyed (21%).

By comparison, after Russia's 2022 attack on Mariupol in Ukraine, 2% of the city's buildings were destroyed. And in Syria, after four years of siege, 3% of Aleppo's buildings were destroyed.

Swathes of Gaza have been transformed into desolate wastelands, including long stretches of its coastline.

These new wastelands cover more than 100 square kilometres, 30% of Gaza's land area.

The map below shows areas (marked in red) which have been cleared of almost all signs of life, with trees uprooted and homes flattened.

That includes entire neighbourhoods, like Shujaya in eastern Gaza City, shown in the satellite image below.

The next morning, Mounir awoke to news that Hamas had led a major attack on Israel. His first thought was to take his family to a place of safety. While they were packing, Mounir says, the mosque next door was bombed.

They fled with nothing but the clothes on their back. Their home was later destroyed.

"I poured everything I had into that house," Mounir says. "And I lost it all in a day."

Today, the family live in a tent in the city of Deir al Balah in central Gaza, as shown below.

Mounir and his wife are now homeschooling their children in an attempt to provide some sense of normality.

Other children are not so fortunate. At least 15,000 are thought to have been orphaned since the war began.

The al Zag family now live in a crowded tent camp in al Mawasi, a 47-square kilometre area designated as a "humanitarian zone" by Israel. Situated to the west of Khan Younis, it is a strip of sandy farmland that stretches along the Mediterranean coast.

The UN and aid agencies have warned that Palestinians in Gaza lack sufficient food, sanitation and healthcare, a situation exacerbated by overcrowding in al Mawasi.

Before the war, this area was home to just a few thousand people. With 86% of Gaza now under evacuation orders, around 1.3 million people are estimated to be crammed into the area.

With so little space, many are forced to live near dumps and open sewage. The result has been the rapid spread of highly contagious skin conditions and the re-emergence of polio. 

"If I were to imagine a nightmare, it wouldn't come close to the current situation" says Mounir, whose children are suffering from skin rashes and allergies.

The situation has been worsened by chronic shortages of basic hygiene products, with the price of soap rising 1,177% since the war began.

The Palestinian health ministry says it has run out of stock of 83% of medical supplies, including 60% of essential medicines.

Despite the pressing need for aid, little has been able to get in. All crossings into Gaza are tightly controlled by Israel. 

In August, almost half of all humanitarian missions in Gaza were denied or impeded by Israeli authorities (46%), according to the UN.  

A further 12% were unable to go ahead due to safety or logistical issues. More than two-thirds of Gaza's roads are damaged, and aid workers have faced attacks from Israeli forces. 

Food prices have doubled due to the shortages, while the cost of flour and meat has tripled. 

The situation is particularly severe in the north of Gaza, where prices have typically risen more than tenfold. Most of the population have resorted to scavenging to survive, while almost half spend more than four hours a day searching for food.

Raising awareness of the plight of her fellow Gazans is Renad Attallah, a bright-eyed 10-year-old with a passion for cooking. Her recipe videos have gone viral on Instagram, where she has amassed over 800,000 followers.

Using whatever ingredients are available, she whips up dishes like "orphan maqlubeh" - a version of Palestine's national dish without chicken, as her family can no longer afford it.

Across Gaza, 14,692 children have been admitted to hospital for malnutrition. But with more than half of its hospitals out of service, the real numbers may be far worse. The UN estimates that as many as 50,400 under-fives are in need of urgent treatment for acute malnutrition.

Aid agencies have also warned that repeated bombings and displacements are exacerbating the mental health crisis among Gaza's children, many of whom are already traumatised by previous rounds of fighting. A 2020 study found that more than half of children in Gaza had PTSD (54%).

While the exterior of al Jaru music shop is riddled with damage, inside it's relatively unscathed.

A grand piano sits nestled between the shelves, which are stacked with high-end speakers and electric keyboards. Upstairs, there is a fully-equipped recording studio.

By all rights, the music shop should no longer exist. Its sole remaining employee is as surprised as anyone.

"When tanks were parked in front of it and were shooting, the vibrations caused a lot of things to fall down," says Jamal.

He reopened the shop in May after the fiercest fighting in the area had subsided.

Jamal spent much of his twenties as a sound engineer in Malaysia, working for artists such as BTS and Billie Eilish. But when he returned to Gaza, he felt lost.

Then one day a friend told him about al Jaru music shop. When he stepped inside, he felt immediately at home.

"This was a remnant of a world that I missed... a beacon of creativity and free thought."

He got to know the owner and became a producer for his band, Osprey V – Gaza's first ever rock group.

Like many Gazans, Jamal was displaced multiple times in the first few months of war. When he was away from the shop, he feared for its survival.

"If we lost it, we would have lost a big part of the Gaza Strip's culture," he says. "Music is what helps you express your humanity."

Leading the singing is Ahmad Khezeg, making his second visit to the beach since the war began.

"I used to come here with my friends," he says. "But they are all dead now."

A year on from the 7 October attacks, Israeli bombs are still falling on Gaza and ceasefire talks have stalled.

"My message to the world is: for the love of God, please wake up. We are shattered."