Overcrowded and Dangerous: Life in Gaza’s ‘Deconfliction Zones’
Her family piled their belongings into a donkey cart and headed even further—to Rafah, a city on Gaza’s border with Egypt. Nearly every day now, the Israeli military warns Palestinians to leave swaths of the Gaza Strip—identified by numbered grids—where they expect intense fighting and urges them to seek shelter in so-called deconfliction zones that they say will be safer.