Ahmed Baker turned an abandoned bus into a shelter due to the Gaza Strip’s lack of tents after Israel seized the Rafah border crossing, preventing aid from getting through.
With Israel seizing control of the Rafah crossing to Egypt in early May, cutting off a crucial route for aid into Gaza, Baker is just one of many who has been forced to improvise in order to provide shelter for their families.
Baker, 46, his wife, and their four children were forced to leave their house in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, following Israel’s invasion of Rafah on 7 May.
They camped on a sandy hill for a week in the al-Mawasi district of KhanYounis, where the heat of the day and cold of the night made life uncomfortable. ….more