‘I don’t sleep:’ over two million Palestinians in Gaza suffering from sweltering heat

Palestinian woman Amal Nsair tries to keep her children cool as they sleep in a school in Khan Younis. Photo: Reuters

Mohammad Salem

Sweltering summer weather is worsening conditions in Gaza where nearly all the 2.3 million inhabitants have been driven from their homes by Israel’s military campaign and where there is almost no electricity and little clean water.

Families living in tents, in crowded shelters in UN schools or crammed into private homes, face the rising summer temperatures without air condition, showers or a functioning health system amid rising rates of malnutrition and disease.