Last week, the militant group Hamas said it would dissolve its civilian administration, which was part of the US-brokered peace deal from 2025.
But Gazans report that many institutions operate as they always did. Eyad Saleh, for example, said he went to the usual government offices to get a copy of his university diploma that he lost during the war.
"There's nowhere else to go in Gaza except the institutions run by Hamas," Saleh told DW on the phone from Gaza City. "The only entity providing services to residents is the same body that was in place before the war, with the same employees."
The 19-year-old lost the document when he was displaced. He hopes to apply for a scholarship abroad, as he was among the best in his school. Studying elsewhere, he hopes, will be his ticket out of Gaza.
Na'ama Saeed, 39, suffers from chronic disease, and she went to the Health Ministry this week to try to get a medical referral document.
