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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jason Burke in Jerusalem

‘I could never dream such a nightmare’: Gaza in grip of humanitarian disaster

Woman in makeshift shelter
A displaced woman in a makeshift shelter at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Photograph: Reuters

UN-run shelters in Gaza are so crowded that it is impossible to count the people needing food, water, medicine and other basics, administrators say, as more fighting and bombardments continue to arrive.

“It is a terrible, terrible situation. There is no room even to sleep on the floor. There is one toilet for 700 or 800 people. No bread, no stoves for cooking. We are drinking irrigation water,” one UN official at a compound in the southern city of Khan Younis told the Guardian on Monday night.

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