At the height of the displacement crisis at the beginning of August, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that only just over half of all the 485,000 displaced were in UN shelters. The shelters, meant to hold around 500 people each, were stretched far beyond capacity and were holding an average of 2,800. It was up to ordinary Gazans to deal with the overflow, and dozens of organizations like al-Najd as well as religious institutions and ordinary people worked overtime to provide for the displaced as much as possible.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:58:42 +0000
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