Fourteen-year-old Karam dribbles a blue, yellow and white football down a sandy path in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.
“My dream was to become a footballer,” said Karam, who is displaced with his two brothers and sister. “I used to play with my friends in the street.
“Life before the war was beautiful. But now, there is no life,” he told CNN.
Around the teenager, Gaza’s deep blue, sea-tipped horizon has turned into a panorama of burned farmland, charred orchards and mountains of rubble.
As the US and Iran try to turn their truce into long-term peace, CNN has spoken to residents of the Strip who say they are living in…