‘Rats run over our faces’: Gaza’s displaced forced to live on infested land
Al Jazeera
Displaced Palestinians forced to live on a landfill battle rats, scabies and unexploded shells.
The smell hits you before you even see the tents. In the al-Taawun camp, wedged between Yarmouk Stadium and al-Sahaba Street in central Gaza City, the line between human habitation and human waste has been erased.
Forced to flee their homes by Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, 765 families have set up makeshift shelters directly on top of and adjacent to an enormous solid waste dump. Here, amid mountains of rotting garbage, they are fighting a losing battle against disease, pests and the psychological horror of living in filth.
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Displaced Palestinians forced to live on a landfill battle rats, scabies and unexploded shells.