- Previously, had everything they could wish for
- go for walks every day, wedding parties
- go to parks, malls, everything we wanted
- Women lost their being and everything in this war
- Now everything is destroyed
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.
Women struggle to dress modestly while crowded into tents with extended family members, including men, and with strangers only steps away in neighboring tents.
Access to menstrual products is limited, so they cut up sheets or old clothes to use as pads. Makeshift toilets usually consist of only a hole in the sand surrounded by sheets dangling from a line, and these must be shared with dozens of other people.
Sewage runs into the streets, and food and water are hard to obtain. Winter is setting in. Families often wear the same clothes for weeks
- Women feel constantly exposed. There is no privacy for women.
- life in the camps makes even the simplest needs difficult, like getting period pads
- using pieces of cloth and even diapers, which have also increased in price.
- bathroom is hole in the ground, surrounded by blankets propped up by sticks.
- women and girls in Gaza require menstrual hygiene products, as well as toilets.
supplies piling up at crossings from Israel
- women have to choose between buying pads and buying food and water
- torn up her old clothes to use for menstrual pads:
- Wherever we find fabric, we tear it up and use it
- A packet of pads costs 45 shekels ($12)
- there is not even five shekels in the whole tent
- some women have not changed clothes for 40 days
- will certainly create skin diseases and psychological conditions
- not long ago, being a woman felt more like a joy and less like a burden.
- “Women are now deprived of everything, no clothes, no bathroom.
- Their psychology is completely destroyed
- women wrestle with lives in tents.
- Previously, had everything they could wish for
- go for walks every day, wedding parties, parks, malls, everything we wanted
- Women lost their being and everything in this war
- Now everything is destroyed.”
