Displaced Palestinians inside Gaza described difficult living conditions, exorbitant food prices, child hunger, and poor sanitation.
CNN spoke by phone with several people trying to survive in Rafah, in the south, to which tens of thousands have fled even though it is already the most densely populated part of Gaza.
“The way I live is to beg here and there and take help from anyone,” said Abu Misbah, a 51-year-old construction worker trying to support a family of 10.
He said that vegetables and fruits were unaffordable. His children asked for oranges, but he was unable to buy them.
“We have never been in this situation before; “We were a middle-class family,” he said. Now, since the war, we have been buying dates, which we used to find everywhere for free. We want a solution to our miserable suffering.”
Umm Omar, 50 years old, is also displaced from Rafah, and lives in a tent. During the truce, his family briefly returned home to find all the windows and solar panels broken, and the kitchen destroyed.
“We are nine people in a two-meter-by-meter tent,” she said. “We bought this camping tent ourselves; no one helped or helped us.”
Omar said the group relied on canned foods, and he estimated that most foods were at least four times more expensive than before the war. It is also difficult to find the medicine.
“Life is difficult and humiliating; “An insulting word doesn’t even come close to describing it,” she told CNN.
In recent days, large groups of civilians in desperate need of food have been seen surrounding aid trucks arriving into Gaza in a desperate stampede for help.
The United Nations warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in southern Gaza. She warned that the amount of aid entering the enclave “is still completely insufficient.”
