By Saleh SalemRAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - With one million Gazans displaced from their homes by Israeli bombardments seeking refuge in the border town of Rafah, five families have moved into a chicken farm, living in its long concrete sheds, the battery coops transformed into bunk beds.
For the Hanoon family, one of five in an extended clan that have moved in there, the chicken farm feels close to rock bottom.
Then an acquaintance, a friend of my cousin's, told me there's a chicken farm in Rafah with cages," he said.
But as the time went by they had to accept that the chicken sheds would be their home for much longer.
"It is hard to live in a place like this, a place which was designed for chicken and birds.
Persons:
Saleh Salem, Umm Mahdi Hanoon, Mahdi, Abu Mustafa, Angus McDowall, Angus MacSwan
Locations:
Saleh Salem RAFAH, Gaza, Rafah, Israel, Radwan, Gaza City, al