Source: Sky News
Sunday 10 December 2023 16:13:36
From Gaza to the West Bank and far beyond, there is a collective anger at the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
And the UK's abstention is seen as tacit support for the continuing Israeli campaign against Hamas, even as aid agencies are lining up to tell the world that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is becoming completely unmanageable and dire.
The warnings that social order is on the brink of disintegrating appear now to be happening.
Pictures from the Rafah crossing show one of few aid trucks entering Gaza being mobbed by crowds of people desperate to get their hands on a little food, or anything they can find.
To the west, on the Mediterranean Sea, the people who evacuated to al Mawasi don't even have the opportunity to attempt to get their hands on aid. There is none.
This former Bedouin settlement, which the Israel Defence Forces says is a safe zone, is a barren wasteland at the best of times - now it's the worst.
Our team in Gaza visited al Mawasi again and filmed as people tried to set up home in tented camps they've built themselves.
There are now hundreds of families in al Mawasi, many of them women and children, living cheek by jowl. They're only just surviving.
Sami Waleed Keshko and his family first fled Gaza City to Khan Younis, and then as the fighting intensified in the south, they had to flee again.
"It was difficult, but we moved out of Gaza City when the tanks and snipers were on the ground. When you see all these refugees here, don't think they have willingly moved," he told Sky News.
"They were displaced against their will when they were under fire and had to flee to save their children."