Posted on Oct 15, 2023
Khan Younis: A Gaza city on its knees, now with a million mouths to feed
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A tide of humanity has washed into Khan Younis.
Hundreds of thousands fled here from the north on whatever could carry them - cars if there was fuel, horse and cart if one could be found, their own feet if there was no other option.
And what they found was a city on its knees, ill-prepared for its population to literally double overnight.
Every room, every alley, every street is packed with men, women and the young. And there is nowhere else to go.
Hamas say 400,000 of the 1.1 million people who call northern Gaza home headed south down the Salah al-Din Road in the last 48 hours, following Israel's order to leave.
I was among them, along with my wife and three children, and two days' worth of food.
Hundreds of thousands fled here from the north on whatever could carry them - cars if there was fuel, horse and cart if one could be found, their own feet if there was no other option.
And what they found was a city on its knees, ill-prepared for its population to literally double overnight.
Every room, every alley, every street is packed with men, women and the young. And there is nowhere else to go.
Hamas say 400,000 of the 1.1 million people who call northern Gaza home headed south down the Salah al-Din Road in the last 48 hours, following Israel's order to leave.
I was among them, along with my wife and three children, and two days' worth of food.
Khan Younis: A Gaza city on its knees, now with a million mouths to feed
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."I have covered four wars here in Gaza, my home. Never before have I seen it like this.
For however bad the previous wars were, I had never seen people starve or die of thirst in this place. This is now a real possibility.
The only option out of Gaza, the Rafah crossing into Egypt, remains closed. And Cairo knows that to open it would usher in a new humanitarian disaster.
There are now one million Gazan refugees waiting 20km from Rafah. Once the crossing is open, there will be chaos.
I saw the same thing in 2014, when thousands tried to escape the war. This time it would be much, much worse. This is what Egypt fears.
The flood of humanity will simply wash over the border, and it will be catastrophe and chaos again."
..."I have covered four wars here in Gaza, my home. Never before have I seen it like this.
For however bad the previous wars were, I had never seen people starve or die of thirst in this place. This is now a real possibility.
The only option out of Gaza, the Rafah crossing into Egypt, remains closed. And Cairo knows that to open it would usher in a new humanitarian disaster.
There are now one million Gazan refugees waiting 20km from Rafah. Once the crossing is open, there will be chaos.
I saw the same thing in 2014, when thousands tried to escape the war. This time it would be much, much worse. This is what Egypt fears.
The flood of humanity will simply wash over the border, and it will be catastrophe and chaos again."
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