Palestinians living in camps for displaced people in Gaza have told the AP how they struggle to sleep because their tents are filled with insects.
Abu Shadi Afana, 62, told the AP that small insects stick to his skin when he tries to sleep, and he feels like they are eating his face.
“There is no one to provide us with a tent, food, or drink, and on top of all this, we live in garbage,” he said.
Anwar al-Hurkali, who lives with his family in a tent camp in the central Gazan city of Deir el-Balah, said he can’t sleep for fear of scorpions and rodents. He doesn’t let his children leave their tent, he said, worrying they’ll get sick from pollution and mosquitoes.
Rubbish has been piling up across Gaza after Israel seized control of the territory’s two main landfills, east of the cities of Khan Younis and Gaza City, for the creation of a so-called buffer zone.
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