Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Daily life in Rafah’s desert camp

from Electronic Intifada

Our new camp in Rafah, after our third displacement, is located in a graveyard near the Egyptian border. Each day the tents of new arrivals – of those forcibly displaced by Israeli attacks – creep closer to the graves.

After every Israeli massacre, both graveyard and camp expand, crawling toward the outer edges of the desert.

We’ve been here since December 2023. Nine of us share a tent that is 16 square meters.

We are in the desert, but sometimes it does not feel that way because of the density and the near-constant sounds of Israeli explosions and drones.

There are so many people in the camp, all of us in tents that do not protect from heat or cold...

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1 comment:

  1. RHINE MEADOWS II (1945 SUMMER).

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    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/making-the-world-safe-for-kfc-how-development-banks-underwrote-fast-foods-global-takeover.html

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