Gaza’s second front: The battle against disease-carrying rats

Palestinian families in Gaza endure daily terror from rats in unsanitary camps, but help is hard to come by.

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Beside a mountain of destroyed rubble, Samah al-Dabla lives in a makeshift tent with her children, gripped by a fear that did not exist in their lives before the war: the rats that now invade their shelter.

Samah always keeps her children, three-year-old Mayaseen, and four-year-old Asaad, in sight, and spends most of her day cleaning in a desperate attempt to discourage the rats, but to no avail.

Gaza’s second front: The battle against disease-carrying rats

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