Gaza displacement camps face growing health crisis from rodents and insects

Beyond bombings, displaced families in Gaza now battle a silent threat: rats, insects, and diseases spreading in overcrowded, unsanitary camps. A mother shares waking to find her infant son bitten on the face by a rat. Doctors warn of severe infections like meningitis and plague, with children and elderly most at risk. With restricted supplies and infrastructure destroyed, the crisis is escalating into a public health disaster, demanding urgent intervention. #Gaza #HumanitarianCrisis https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/04/22/a-nocturnal-threat-rodents-and-disease-spread-through-gazas-displacement-camps/