Correspondent in Jerusalem
The downpours that have lashed Gaza over the past two days have not spared Tahrer al-Naqla's tent. In Khan Younes, in the southern Gaza Strip, the mother of six has to live with thirteen other members of her family in Khan Younes, a flimsy shelter in the courtyard of a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency in charge of Palestinian refugees. The tarpaulin they have stretched over a few wooden bars is worn to the core, it flaps in the wind, the water drips through. The ground is soaked: the few possessions are hung on nails; A mattress was placed high up on a makeshift shelf. "When UNRWA feeds us, we eat. Otherwise, we have nothing," Taher el-Naqla told Le Figaro in the Gaza Strip.
Eagerly awaited by Gaza's civilian population, the truce that came into force last Friday has only allowed them to find a little respite, after seven weeks of bombing...
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