'Many of those fleeing Rafah had already gone to the “expanded humanitarian zone”, designated by the IDF at al-Mawasi on the coast, where aid workers said conditions were “horrific”. Others had fled to the north.
...
'Al-Mawasi, a strip of sandy coast and dunes, is packed with hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have overwhelmed entirely inadequate supplies of food, clean water and healthcare. Sanitation systems barely exist, leading to the rapid spread of disease.'
