Displaced families in Gaza face growing health risks from exposure to sewage and garbage

(27 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza Strip - 22 June 2024
1. Various of canals with sewage flowing through between tents of displaced
2. Various of garbage around tents
3. Child collecting garbage
4. Close of garbage on ground
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jabr Rayhan, displaced from Jabaliya:
"Do you see the garbage collecting here? Here we live with flies during the day. We suffer from flies, sewage, and cockroaches, day and night, and because of the mosquitoes we cannot sleep at night, and we cannot stay in a tent or any tent can protect us from it. This is the first side, the second side, there are no toilets in this area at all. We walk approximately a kilometre to enter the toilet, a kilometre we walk."
6. Various of man collecting garbage
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jabr Rayhan, displaced from Jabaliya:
"8 to 9 months passed and we are dying a thousand times a day. Our children are gone and dead, our families are dead, and our homes are gone. Despite that, what we live here is more difficult, what we live here in Deir al-Balah and the displacement is more difficult. We hope that they will return us to the north, and die in our homes and on our lands better than stay here."
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Nuseirat, Central Gaza Strip - 20 June 2024
8. Wide of truck unloading garbage
9. Child sorting through garbage in pile
10. Various of bulldozer unloading garbage, children watching
11. Various of children collecting leftover garbage
12. Wide of garbage piles near tents of displaced people
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shadi Afana, displaced from Gaza:
"I wish the problem was only the smell. We are accustomed to garbage, but the problem is not the garbage. The ants, cockroaches, and flies that come out from under the ground. How do they come out? I don’t know. Rats walk between our legs. Where we can go? Look, here is the tent. No one gave us a tent and no one is caring about our camp in terms of food or drink, and beside all of this there is also garbage?"
14. Various of bulldozer removing garbage from road
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Dalloul, displaced from Gaza:
"We are tired of this garbage. We have Hepatitis and diseases. Today I am 21 years-old. I am supposed to start my life, but my life has become in front of the garbage. I was living in my house happily, working, bringing food to my family. We were living comfortably and happily. The sewage killed us."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza Strip - 20 June 2024
16. Various of garbage on ground, people gathering to fill their containers with water
17. Various of people carrying containers and standing in water contaminated with sewage
18. Young girl walking through water contaminated with sewage
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Anas Al-Kahlot, displaced from Jabaliya:
"It is as if the air we breathe is dirty, the air itself is dirty, and when you are outside the tent you can see the dirt. Basically, we live on top of the dirt and not just breathe the dirt. We get out of the tents the dirt under our feet."
20. Various of people standing in water contaminated with sewage holding containers
21. Young girl trying to cross sewage
STORYLINE:
Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s crowded tent camps for displaced families.
People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby to wash their hands.
The filth surrounding them, people in the camps say, is just another inescapable reality of war - like pangs of hunger or sounds of bombing.
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