In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy

Wafaa Nasrallah poses for a portrait with her 4-year-old son, Ameer, and her 2-year-old daughter, Ayloul, at her tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 28, 2024. Alaa Hamami gazes into a fragment of a broken mirror as she poses for a portrait beside her deteriorating cosmetics in her tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 18, 2024.

For Gaza's women, the hardships of life in the territory's sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.