Amid towering piles of rubble and destruction, mother of five Faten Abu Haloub, her family and in-laws have set up adjacent tents on the ruins of what used to be their extended family home, Al Jazeera correspondent Maram Humaid reports.

Her husband Karam’s parents — 60-year-old Dalal and 65-year-old Nasser — have eight children: three sons and five daughters, of whom two still live at home.

Home is now the little tent next to Karam and Faten’s with a firepit in front and makeshift “zones”.

There’s the kitchen — no more than a few wooden planks to rest cooking utensils and their meagre food supplies on — near the fire.

Off to the side is the toilet, a stone-lined hole dug in the sand that serves as a latrine with more stones marking out a tiny bathing area, the whole section shielded by blankets draped over sticks stuck upright in the ground.