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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bahzad Al-Akhras

In Rafah, we sit in flimsy tents as the bombs fall. There is no escape: we can only wait for the worst

A crying Palestinian woman, with injuries to her face, next to a distressed young child.
Palestinians wounded in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah on 12 February are transported to hospital. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Bahzad Al-Akhras
Bahzad Al-Akhras Photograph: Supplied for Bylines

I’m a doctor and psychiatrist, and before the war in Gaza, my days followed a reliable routine. I would go to work in the clinic, visit my friends and spend time with my family. I lived a normal life. Now, my family and I are refugees in Rafah, after the Israeli army ordered us to leave our home in Khan Younis. We are living in the worst conditions imaginable. We spend our days waiting. We wait in queues for two or three gallons of drinkable water, or for food or plain flour to make bread over a fire, after months without electricity.

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