For Israel, Nowhere Is Safe: Gaza’s Displaced Hide Among Trash Heaps

Once owners of spacious villas and modest homes, the Samour family now shelters among the stench of rotting waste. They fled Gaza City under Israeli bombardment only to find refuge in the unlikeliest of places: a landfill.

With Israeli airstrikes still pounding the enclave, displaced families have nowhere left to go. Schools, hospitals, and UN shelters are either overcrowded, targeted, or gone.

“This is not life. This is survival in filth,” said Um Mahmoud Samour, 42, a mother…