How rats, sewage and winter rains are compounding Gaza’s public health emergency

DUBAI: Rats are spreading rapidly through Gaza’s flooded displacement camps, thriving amid sewage overflow, garbage accumulation and overcrowded shelters, and heightening fears of rodent-borne disease as winter rains worsen living conditions for thousands of Palestinians. Aid agencies warn that the collapse of sanitation systems, combined with restricted access to pest control materials, has created ideal conditions for infestations across camps and damaged neighborhoods, turning already precarious shelters into vectors of serious public health risk.

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