‘There are lots of diseases now’: conditions worsen in Gaza shelters

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UN official, medics and displaced people tell of overcrowding, panic and lack of basics as bombardment continues

UN-run shelters in Gaza are so crowded that it is impossible to count all those needing food, water, medicine and other basics, administrators say, even as displaced people fleeing fighting and bombardments continue to arrive.

“It is a terrible, terrible situation. There is no room even to sleep on the floor. There is one toilet for 700 or 800 people. No bread, no stoves for cooking. We are drinking irrigation water,” one UN official at a compound in the southern city of Khan Younis told the Guardian on Monday night.

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