Displaced Palestinians give a bleak first-hand account of how the Israel-Hamas war has torn apart the lives of their families
A camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, set up to house Palestinians who have fled their homes in the north.A camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, set up to house Palestinians who have fled their homes in the north.gave the order for a million Palestinians to leave their homes and flee south, Lubna took her four children and all the possessions they could carry and moved to a friend’s house in Khan Younis, nearer the Egyptian border.“We are not the only family at the house now.
“This is very difficult – every person can get less than one litre a day,” Lubna said. The UN-recommended bare minimum for basic survival is 15 litres per person per day. “We want to go back to our normal life,” Lubna said. That seems a distant hope now, with a threatened ground offensive by the massed Israeli forces arrayed along the border.
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