KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories: Three children play with sand and pebbles among the tombstones in a southern Gaza cemetery, while a teenage boy, barefoot, carries two buckets of water through the graveyard before vanishing into a tent.
These macabre scenes are a daily reality for some displaced Palestinians, who, unable to find shelter elsewhere, have resorted to pitching tents in a cemetery in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
“We had no other choice,” said Randa Musleh from inside her tent, drinking tea along with some of her 11 children.
She told AFP landlords “were asking for high sums of money.”
A relatively small patch of land covering 50 square meters (540 square feet) can cost as must as 1,000 shekels ($300) a month, Musleh said — a prohibitive sum for most Gazans.
