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“I have never seen worse days in my life than what I am experiencing these days. My children and I live among piles of garbage. I cannot sleep or sit in the tent because of the large number of flies and insects,” this is what Samar Fathi, a displaced woman in the western area of ​​the city of Rafah, told Al Jazeera Net, in her description of her condition. The camp you live in.

This comes amid the spread of garbage and its accumulation among the tents of the displaced, and in light of a severe scarcity of water, whether necessary for general hygiene or safe for drinking.

The displaced woman, Fathi, continued, "The insects have slaughtered us. We cannot sleep or sit on the garbage, as it is our neighbor. Its smell is so bad that we cannot bear it. My children always get sick and suffer from intestinal diseases and fevers."

As for Rasmiya Yassin, she is trying to control her nerves as she complains about her and her family’s suffering from the piles of garbage accumulating between the tents. She says, “The garbage has given us lung problems. We cannot catch our breath. Lice has spread among all the displaced people, and insects and scorpions are eating us. Where can we go? We have no alternative place.” There is no shelter here.”

She added, "I hope that the war will end as soon as possible and that we will return to our homes, whose fate we do not know either."

The need called on the responsible authorities to intervene and place containers to save the displaced people from the health disaster that befell them, and began to deepen in them due to the excessive pollution.

The spread of garbage near the tents of the displaced comes in light of the scarcity of safe drinking water used for public hygiene (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera Net's camera monitored pictures of a large accumulation of garbage near the tents that the displaced people had set up in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah.

Ahmed Al-Sufi, Mayor of Rafah, said, “The municipality has lost control over basic services, especially garbage collection, treatment and drainage of sewage, due to the huge numbers of displaced people and the continuation of the Israeli war.”

He explained that the phenomenon of "random garbage dumps has spread in the city of Rafah due to the increase in the quantity very significantly with the increase in the number of displaced people, and as a result of the severe shortage in the number of machinery necessary to provide services, and the scarcity of fuel allocated for garbage collection operations."

The number of displaced people in the city of Rafah rose to 1,300,000, and the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of martyrs as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip rose to 31,000, while the number of those injured rose to 73,000 since the seventh of last October.

Source: Al Jazeera