The Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza is being flooded as heavy rain pours down and municipality services remain shuttered, Al Jazeera’s Anas Al-Sharif reports from the camp.

Sewage water is seeping into the camp, which shelters thousands of people, causing fears of disease spreading.

“Look at our children, they are playing in sewage water,” a camp resident told Al Jazeera. “The sewage has leaked into the classrooms … the situation is dire. We just want to live in peace like everyone else.”

Al-Sharif said municipality workers cannot step in because they have been targeted by Israeli forces who are also preventing solar panels from being brought into the camp to operate desperately needed generators.