What would have happened to friends and family if Gaza was home?

… the people closest to them …

… and everyone else they know by name.

For a typical American, that would be a social network of about 472 people, according to researchers.

This is what would happen to those people if they were in Gaza.

After six months of war, seven people are dead.

Among those who have been killed are 11-year-old Malak Shafar and her 10-year-old brother Malik, whose father, Youssef, said they were buried in the rubble after an airstrike.

Journalist Roshdi Sarraj’s wife, Shrouq Aila, said he was killed during an Israeli strike on his parents’ home two weeks before his daughter’s first birthday.

Almost no one has enough to eat.

Only 20 people can scrape together a minimally adequate diet. Everyone else is hungry. Nearly 1 in 3 are at risk of starving to death.

Some receive food aid, but it isn’t enough to sustain them or their children.

They might receive a water bottle and a can of food once per week, like Shahinaz Nofal and her children.

The amount of goods entering Gaza has dropped by about 70 percent since the start of the war, and food production inside Gaza has ground to a halt.

Many, like Mahmoud Ibrahim, have eaten nothing but foraged plants for the past three days. Others use animal feed to make bread.

Three out of every 4 people have fled their homes to seek safety in another part of Gaza.

Some, like human rights researcher Mohammed Ahmed Abu Rukbeh, had to move their family four times in a single day to stay ahead of the bombing in Gaza City.

Others, like Hamad Abu Sarhan, followed evacuation orders only to be bombarded days later in a “safer” zone.

Medical care is so hard to find for the displaced that pregnant women give birth on the ground, such as Walaa, who delivered her baby between tents by the light of her uncle’s cellphone.

More than half of homes in Gaza have been damaged by the war.

After the war ends, about half the people in Gaza cannot return to their homes because so many residences have been destroyed or severely damaged.

Ghada Abed, 31, still hopes to return to her old neighborhood once the fighting is done, to set up a tent adjacent to what used to be her home.

Most people who fled their homes are now in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.

The people who lived in Rafah before the war are outnumbered 4 to 1 by the displaced. The Israeli prime minister says he intends to send the army into Rafah soon.

In Rafah, people describe hours-long waits for the bathroom and hygiene facilities so overwhelmed that sewage overflows into their tents.

Mohammad al-Akhras and his wife, Islam al-Khalidi, came to Rafah with their children after being displaced from Gaza City and two hospitals. The tent they live in now offers little protection from the heat and cold.

Israeli forces bombed the city even in the early days of the war. Abd Al Rahman El-Hessi, 12, nearly lost both feet to Israeli shelling in Rafah on Oct. 7.

Thirteen people managed to escape the Gaza Strip since the war began.

Some are U.S. citizens who lived in Gaza, like Momen Yaghi. The Yaghi family traveled by car, foot and horse cart to reach the Rafah crossing after a bomb destroyed the house where they sheltered in Gaza City.

Some families are split between those who can leave Gaza and those who cannot. Fares al-Ghoul fled to Egypt with his immediate family, his mother, his sister-in-law and her daughters. His father and brothers, though, remain in Gaza.

Those without connections or foreign citizenship, like Ghoul’s mother, sister-in-law and her daughters, can only leave if they pay thousands of dollars per person to arrange an exit permit — a sum far beyond what most Gazans can afford. Even then, they are not guaranteed an escape.

Some of the injured and ill have been allowed to leave. For every person who left Gaza for medical treatment, another is still waiting for approval.

Everyone else remains trapped in Gaza.