10:48 BST
Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Jerusalem
People in Gaza are telling me about their struggles with hunger and Israel’s intensified military campaign.
“The situation is getting worse due to the large-scale displacement,” Abd al-Fatah Hussein tells me over WhatsApp from a displacement camp in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area.
WhatsApp messages are one of the few ways the world can find out what’s happening in Gaza. Since the war started in 2023, Israel hasn’t let foreign media enter the area, except for rare, escorted visits with its military.
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“The repeated air strikes, especially during the night, add to the suffering,” Hussein writes.
The father-of-two says there is “no room” in al-Mawasi, where people ordered by the Israeli military to leave their homes are being told to go for safety.
“There is no electricity, no food, insufficient portable water, and no available medicine,” he says.
He describes the aid trucks coming in as a “drop in the ocean of Gaza’s needs”.
Image source, ReutersImage caption,
Palestinians have been displaced to the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis
