Palestinian pottery sees revival in war-ravaged Gaza

Deir el Balah, Palestinian Territories: Traditional clay pottery is seeing a resurgence in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are forced to find solut...

Deir el-Balah, Palestinian Territories: Traditional clay pottery is seeing a resurgence in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are forced to find solutions for a shortage of plates and other crockery to eat from in the territory ravaged by more than a year of war.

"There is an unprecedented demand for plates as no supplies enter the Gaza Strip," 26-year-old potter Jafar Atallah said in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah.

The vast majority of the Palestinian territory's 2.4 million people have been displaced, often multiple times.

Fleeing bombs amid Israel's devastating military offensive, which has destroyed large amounts of civilian infrastructure, everyday items like cups and bowls have often been lost, broken or left behind to perish.

With imports made increasingly difficult by Israeli restrictions and the dangers of delivering aid, Gazans have had to find resourceful ways to meet their needs since the war began.