Airstrikes leave no safe place for Palestinians in southern Gaza

A health crisis is looming as residents fleeing the north are crowded into a small area that lacks basic services

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Mounds of rubbish now dot the landscape of southern Gaza, sprouting in the areas where the enclave's population has clustered in search of safety from Israeli airstrikes.

Israel has repeatedly warned residents of northern Gaza to move south, forcing the population into an even smaller living space, where food and water shortages have combined with a breakdown of services, including rubbish collection, that threatens a health crisis.