More than 2 million people in Gaza are trapped in a humanitarian disaster

• More than 2 million people live in the Gaza Strip, which is facing a punishing counterattack from Israel.
• Experts say Gaza is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, and people are running out of basic supplies. 
• The crisis is exacerbated by the fact that Gaza has been restricted under blockade for 16 years.

Israel's response to the militant group Hamas' attack on Saturday has been an all-out assault on the Gaza Strip, a sliver of land that butts up against the Mediterranean Sea and has been under Israeli and Egyptian blockade for 16 years.