After eight months of war, here’s what Gaza’s humanitarian crisis looks like

CNN — Raed Redwan shades his three-month-old baby from the heat and shoos away insects in a tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

They are trapped, along with his wife and mother, in a sea of displaced families with little respite from overcrowding and pollution. The Palestinian father told CNN he struggles to find aid. Instead, he and his family have no choice but to drink contaminated water and eat just one meal per day.

“I don’t want to talk about food because there is none,” he said in a written message on June 5. “We survived the death from rockets and shelling; will we die of famine?

This war is unnecessary. Many innocents are paying the price, children and woman are dying… For what? We deserve life.”

Raed Redwan, Palestinian father displaced in central Gaza