‘Pushed to the brink,’ Gaza evacuees face bombs, blackouts

Sherihan al-Bayyari fled from her home in Gaza City, with her husband and six children, two weeks ago, when Israel ordered residents of the town to seek safety further south in the Gaza Strip.

With nowhere else to go, she is now living in a school classroom with 60 other evacuees, her family space marked off by lines of laundry – unwashed for lack of water. And essential supplies are running short.

“There is no water at all. Can you imagine I haven’t had a drop of water since morning?” Ms. Bayyari says. Like many other mothers, she is feeding her children plain flatbread – an empty sandwich – for their main meal.