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After six months of filming and fronting street interview ads himself, Suggs was able to turn most days in the park over to a team of staff and freelancers.

He told a BBC freelancer: "Even if the house is destroyed, even if it's just rubble, we'll go back, put up a tent, and return to our people."

"We are waiting, sitting by the crossing. My son and I slept here last night, on the pavement, in the cold, waiting to go back home," he told a BBC freelancer.

Foreign journalists are banned by Israel from entering Gaza independently, so news organisations, including the BBC, rely on trusted local freelancers to report from the ground.

To get round Israel's ban on our entry into Gaza, we commission local freelancers who are still able to operate on the ground.