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Louise Wateridge
23 hours
No connection since 11am here in #Rafah and seemingly across most parts of #GazaStrip Came back online to learn one of my colleagues - who only just left #Rafah looking for safety - has been killed with his family in bombardments. There are no words. This is Gaza today.
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Louise Wateridge
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300,000 children used to learn in @unrwa schools in #Gaza Today, the schools are either being used as emergency shelters, or assessed by the @UN for unexploded ordnance. Education has been replaced by fear & loss. Loss of life, home & stability. There is no childhood in Gaza
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Louise Wateridge
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Back in #Gaza city today, the world hasn’t seen anything like this. Destruction and suffering under siege. Thousands presumed buried under the rubble. Yet devastation continues as the war rages on after 7 months.
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Louise Wateridge
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#Rafah 7am this morning: steady stream of vehicles already packed up with families & belongings as people continue to leave the area. Those staying go about their daily survival, collecting water. Families & colleagues I speak to express their continued fear of what to do next.
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Louise Wateridge
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Everyone here in #Rafah is exhausted. Families have been forcibly displaced again and again. Forced to move with minimal notice and next to no means. My colleague worries for his elderly parents. I can see he is at breaking point.
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Louise Wateridge
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In the middle of @UNRWA #Rafah log base, where some 45,000 people are sheltering, you'll find Madeline holding classes for children among shelters. A trained accountant, Madeline now spends her days teaching children - as she wants to "give hope only possible through education."
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Louise Wateridge
7 days
Very wet in #Rafah this morning as 1.4 million people nervously await information. There is an overwhelming sense of fear among the population, of whom half are children.
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Louise Wateridge
15 days
Little remaining of @unrwa Khan Younis training centre, where +40,000 people once sheltered when it came under direct fire by military operation & besieged. Entire rooms burnt out, belongings scattered everywhere. Graves of children in the yard read “your sister misses you”
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Louise Wateridge
15 days
#Gaza Khan Younis today, abandoned children’s shoes. Everywhere. Thousands of families used to shelter in these @unrwa schools turned shelters before they came under attack. So many belongings left behind. People fleeing so fast, even shoes were left.
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Louise Wateridge
16 days
You can see @unrwa ’s work everywhere you go in the #GazaStrip From bags of flour to medical clinics, food distribution centres, schools sheltering people, trucks delivering aid & child safe/play spaces - all of it is happening because of @unrwa
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Louise Wateridge
15 days
My colleague and friend Mona this week, donating blood at a field hospital in #Rafah We were visiting our colleague Abdallah, who was severely injured by bombardments - when Mona learned they had the same blood type she donated immediately. People doing whatever they can.
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Louise Wateridge
10 days
In #Rafah this morning, people go about their daily survival - collecting water, mostly. A still nervousness sits among families. Any large scale offensive from Israeli Forces here would mean more suffering and death. The consequences are beyond imagination.
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Louise Wateridge
17 days
#Gaza Reports of children dying in extreme heat this week are a terrifying warning of the horrors that will continue as the weather warms up. Almost an entire population is displaced, many surviving under makeshift shelters with limited clean water available. This war must stop.
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Philippe Lazzarini
17 days
Over the past few days, #Gaza has been undergoing an unusual heatwave. This made the already inhumane living conditions even worse for 1.5 million people, mostly living under plastic sheets in #Rafah . We received reports that at least two children died due to the heat. What…
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Louise Wateridge
12 days
Scenes from Bureij Camp middle #Gaza today. Alarming concern over hygiene & sanitation as we move into summer - yet an @unrwa sanitation truck lies blasted into a wall. Waste keeps piling up, increasing spread of diseases - but necessary machinery is totally destroyed.
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Louise Wateridge
6 days
Children sat among surrounding bombardments. #Rafah tonight
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