Heat and thirst drive families in Gaza to drink water that makes them sick

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — After waking early to stand in line for an hour under the August heat, Rana Odeh returns to her tent with her jug of murky water. “We are forced to give it to our children because we have no alternative,” Odeh, who was driven from her home in Khan Younis, said of the water. Such scenes have become the grim routine in Muwasi, a sprawling displacement camp in central Gaza where hundreds of thousands endure scorching summer heat.