Disease, hunger and Israeli strikes: Six months after Trump’s ceasefire in Gaza

She spent the winter struggling to protect her six young children from the biting cold and driving rain.

She spent the winter struggling to protect her six young children from the biting cold and driving rain. Now the weather in Gaza has improved but Ezyia Abu Hayya is facing a new, more wretched problem: rats who devour her family’s scarce food and even their few remaining clothes.

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“In the winter, the water surrounds us, and in the summer, we suffer from rats because our tent is low,” the 34-year-old said, squatting inside her tiny dwelling in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. “The rats eat everything, leaving us with nothing.”

It’s been more than six months since a ceasefire halted the heaviest fighting in the Gaza Strip, but the changing seasons still bring fresh miseries for Abu Hayya and her children.