AFP journalist covers war as Gaza faces extreme shortages

With fuel prices exorbitant and road travel treacherous in the war-battered Gaza Strip, AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna has to walk for hours in the searing heat every day just to document the news.

“I walk 14 to 15 kilometres (nine miles) every day to reach the news sites,” he said.

“This morning, I walked about a 25-kilometre round trip in search of information.”

More than 21 months of war between Israel and Hamas have displaced almost all of Gaza’s population, triggered severe…