“Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhoea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats,” the Associated Press reports.

“My kids are crying because they are hungry and tired and can’t use the bathroom,” Suzan Wahidi, an aid worker and mother of five at a UN shelter in the central town of Deir al-Balah, where hundreds of people share a single toilet. “I have nothing for them,” she told AP.

“Everywhere you go, you see tension in the eyes of people,” said Yousef Hammash, an aid worker with the Norwegian Refugee Council in the southern town of Khan Younis. “You can tell they are at a breaking point.”

“You hear children crying in the night for sweets and hot food,” said Ahmad Kanj, 28, a photographer at a shelter in the southern town of Rafah. “I can’t sleep.”

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