Gaza parents brave dental dilemma: Costly treatment or food on the table?

Nuseirat, Gaza – Fifty-year-old Murad Haji sits in silence in a dentist’s chair among the rubble of Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, hoping to find some relief from a pain that has plagued him for months.

He holds his jaw, overwhelmed by a sharp throbbing ache. He had been given a quote of about 400 shekels ($142) for treatment – an amount that could feed his children for four or f...