{"id":1474112,"date":"2024-01-31T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/death-disease-palestinians-rafah-gaza-war-overcrowding"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:05:22","slug":"one-toilet-for-500-people-death-and-disease-await-palestinians-in-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/31\/one-toilet-for-500-people-death-and-disease-await-palestinians-in-rafah\/","title":{"rendered":"One toilet for 500 people: death and disease await Palestinians in Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overcrowding crisis in southern Gaza only set to worsen in coming days as Israeli forces push deeper into Khan Younis<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jan\/31\/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-hamas-ceasefire-proposal-gaza-palestine-conditions-israel-war\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Haneen Harara wakes up each morning in the southern Gazan city of Rafah thinking about the long queues and crowds that stand between her and the survival basics of food, water and medical care.<\/p><p>The film-maker and employee at a Dutch charity considers herself lucky that she and 15 members of her family reached the city on Gaza\u2019s border with Egypt in time to find a house at which to stay. Many others have found shelter from the winter cold in tents that fill with water every time it rains.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/death-disease-palestinians-rafah-gaza-war-overcrowding\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/death-disease-palestinians-rafah-gaza-war-overcrowding\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overcrowding crisis in southern Gaza only set to worsen in coming days as Israeli forces push deeper into Khan YounisMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesHaneen Harara wakes up each morning in the southern Gazan city of Rafah thinking about the long queues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,6,72064,1258,2019,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474594,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474112\/revisions\/1474594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}