Gazans flee scorching tents for a polluted sea

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Residents of Gaza Strip are fleeing hot tents for the polluted Mediterranean shore amid rising summer temperatures and scarce fresh water. Most of the population remains displaced due to years of conflict, living in tents and damaged buildings along the coast.

By Dawoud Abu Alkas GAZA CITY, June 22 (Reuters) - Residents of the Gaza Strip have been flocking from suffocating tents to the territory's polluted Mediterranean shore to bathe and wash their clothes, as summer temperatures rise and fresh water remains hard to come by. Nearly all Gaza's population was displaced during two years of war between Israel and Hamas, with Gazans now crammed into ​a narrow strip along the coast, mainly in tents and damaged buildings.