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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kaamil Ahmed

Airstrikes leave no safe place for Palestinians in southern Gaza

Life in the south of Gaza is a struggle, with little access to food or water.
Life in the south of Gaza is a struggle, with little access to food or water. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Mounds of rubbish now dot the landscape of southern Gaza, sprouting in the areas where the enclave’s population has clustered in search of safety from Israeli airstrikes.

Israel has repeatedly warned residents of northern Gaza to move south, forcing the population into an even smaller living space, where food and water shortages have combined with a breakdown of services, including rubbish collection, that threatens a health crisis.

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