For the Maarouf family, living in Rafah’s tent city after fleeing their house in Gaza at the start of Israel’s deadly bombardment nearly three months ago, home is now the small campfire they sit around each night.
Supplies of wood, scavenged from ruined buildings, were exhausted long ago in the devastated Palestinian enclave and the small fires of displaced, destitute people are now fed with bits of cloth or plastic.
“There is no safety. We’re scared, I swear. My children are scared and say to me, ‘Dad we’re out in the open.’ I tell them ‘God help us, where can we go?’” said Shadi Maarouf, his face lit up by the firelight.
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