Residents line up to collect scant water supplies in Gaza

Palestinians desperate for water lined up to fill bottles and large jugs Tuesday at a desalination plant in Gaza.

Children and men took turns using a hose in Nusairat to fill containers that they hauled away using bicycles, a wheelchair and a cart pulled by a donkey.

Ismael Al-Hafi said people are rationing the water they can find and wait two or three days to clean themselves.

“Gaza is in complete collapse,” Al-Hafi said. “There is no solar to operate the desalination plants. This means that you have to struggle to fill two gallons of water. This is suffering.” (AP)