Palestine

Gaza: 'The children wake up screaming. I am worried it will damage them'

Mahmoud Mughari speaks bluntly. "I normally wash and shower twice a day. Now I can only do it every four or five days. The children smell. We all smell. We are worried that this will cause diseases."

Outside the home in central Gaza he and his own family share with his elderly parents, five married brothers and their children - 48 in all - Mr Mughari was describing the impact made by Israel's air strikes in Gaza last week, one of which severed the water pipe serving this refugee camp of 57,000 people.

The first problem, Mr Mughari, says, is that power - which would normally be running, among much else, refrigeration and fans in the current 91F (33C) temperatures - has been cut from 24 hours a day to eight hours a day.

If the IDF doesn't kill the Palestinians, the heat surely will. Is this the new Israeli plan? roasting them to death?

The Israeli PM Omert recently said he values Israeli lives more than Palestinians, now we are seeing the result of this view.