Inside Gaza’s tent cities without a single proper toilet: ‘it’s humiliating’

In their bare-bones tent in southern Gaza, Mostafa Shaaban built his family’s makeshift toilet behind a curtain in a corner.

He dug a shallow pit in the sandy soil, poured a concrete slab around it, fixed a bottomless bucket over the hole, then topped it off with a battered, plastic toilet seat.
It reeks with a foul odour and buzzes with flies and mosquitoes only a few feet from where they sleep and prepare meals.

Every week, Shaaban has to dig the sewage sludge out of the pit.

But at least it...