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

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

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.

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