“People drink salt water”: southern Gaza “on the verge of collapse” with the influx of displaced people

2023-10-18 16:43:15

Ghada and her five sons only took one small bag each. They have already been lucky to find a car big enough to take them to Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. First, Israeli leaflets fell from the sky ordering residents to evacuate the north of the Strip. When the bombs replaced the leaflets, last Saturday at 8 a.m., the family took to the road. Except the father, who remained in Gaza City “as an act of resistance”. Like them, hundreds of thousands of Gazans left almost everything behind, crossing the Wadi Gaza, a watercourse, by all means: by car, by cart, and even on foot.