The Guardian: ‘No water, food, health care, toilet’: Desperation deepens in Gaza’s camps

Tents set up by displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi near the border with Egypt in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Hundreds of new shelters set up near Khan Younis as Palestinians flee fighting in Rafah

Malak A Tantesh in Khan Younis and Jason Burke in Jerusalem

Wed 15 May 2024 00.00 EDT

Last modified on Wed 15 May 2024 02.06 EDT

Soaring above the rows of tents 10 deep on the dunes stretching back from the Mediterranean sea is a reminder of better times in Gaza: a ferris wheel.

Now, the cafes, paths and miniature train of the Asda’a amusement park are obscured by hundreds of shelters, put up by some of the half a million newly displaced people who have made their way to this sandy strip of coastline near the city of Khan Younis to escape fighting in the north and south of the territory.

Massa al-Arbeed, 10, had only just arrived from Gaza City, with her brother and mother.

“We have had to leave a lot behind because this is perhaps the sixth time we have moved,” al-Arbeed told the Guardian. “So I’m just sitting here.

“There are no games or dolls to play with, or even a house to take shelter in, and because we move a lot, I’ve lost touch with all my friends and now I don’t know anything about them.”

Always anxious, sometimes injured or sick, frequently hungry and thirsty, most of the inhabitants of the tented city that has risen among the dunes and scrubby fields are seeking shelter from the relentless Israeli offensive that has reached Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza.

Another hundred thousand have moved from northern Gaza... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/no-water-food-health-care-toilet-desperation-deepens-in-gazas-camps 

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