'A slow death': Gazans live alongside rotting rubbish and rodents
Masri and 15 relatives live at a camp in Khan Younis, feet away from piles of rubbish/ Across the Gaza Strip, in a landscape newly transformed by war, mountains of stinking rubbish pose severe dangers to health and the environment. “We’ve never lived next to rubbish before,” says Asmahan al-Masri, a displaced woman, originally from Beit Hanoun in the north, whose home is now a wasteland in Khan Younis. “I cry just like any other grandmother would over her grandchildren being sick and having scabies. This is like a slow death. There is no ...
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