More than 1.4 million displaced Gazans are living amid infestations, sewage, food scarcity and constant waiting, while war and bombardment continue overhead
Rats tap-dance into the tent at night, skipping over sleeping children and parents trying to fall asleep, sometimes biting the tip of a nose or an ankle. They rummage through the stew recently brought from a public kitchen, gnaw at the flour sack and clothes, and then everything must be thrown away. Outside, they gather near piles of rubble or heaps of garbage. Under the rubble, one can assume they have found bodies. In the garbage, they find other food.