The situation in Gaza is miserable in many shelters where displaced Palestinians are staying, and wounded children are crying for food and not healing from their injuries, Louise Wateridge of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says.

“They have four mattresses between a family of 45,” Al Jazeera quoted Wateridge as saying.

“Aisha here, who is 60 years old, has been telling me that the rats come at night into the shelter and under the plastic sheeting while they are sleeping,” she said.

“The situation is utterly hopeless for the children here.”

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