Gaza has become frozen in 'humanitarian purgatory' — and it could get worse

• Nine months after Hamas and Israel agreed to a hard-fought ceasefire in Gaza, the term has become a cruel irony for the two million Palestinians trapped inside the territory.
• The situation has become what one analyst described as a permanent state of "humanitarian purgatory" amid a landscape of ongoing violence.
• The war has not ended; it has simply slowed its pace.