Photos of displaced people in Gaza battling stifling heat amid food and water shortages

A Palestinian patient sweats during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where there is no air conditioning, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A Palestinian patient sweats during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where there is no air conditioning, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
In the summer heat, a Palestinian boy carries jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
In the summer heat, a Palestinian boy carries jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Palestinian girl runs with an empty basin to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. The youth behind her pulls containers of water. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Palestinian girl runs with an empty basin to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. The youth behind her pulls containers of water. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
In the summer heat, a man gives a child water from a plastic bag he has just bought for one shekel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
In the summer heat, a man gives a child water from a plastic bag he has just bought for one shekel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
In the summer heat, a man sells plastic bags of water for one shekel each, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
In the summer heat, a man sells plastic bags of water for one shekel each, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinian Rana Odeh, carries buckets full of water in the next to where she takes shelter in Muwasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinian Rana Odeh, carries buckets full of water in the next to where she takes shelter in Muwasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinian children buy bags of drinking water during a heat wave in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinian children buy bags of drinking water during a heat wave in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Palestinian patient seeks relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A Palestinian patient seeks relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Enaam Al Majdoub uses water collected from a distribution point to bathe her 3-year-old granddaughter, Jourieh, while her son Zaki uses some of the water for cooking in their family tent in Gaza City on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Enaam Al Majdoub uses water collected from a distribution point to bathe her 3-year-old granddaughter, Jourieh, while her son Zaki uses some of the water for cooking in their family tent in Gaza City on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinian patients seek relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinian patients seek relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A group of Palestinians sit in the shade of their tent amid destroyed buildings on a hot summer day in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A group of Palestinians sit in the shade of their tent amid destroyed buildings on a hot summer day in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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Blistering heat deepens suffering for displaced people in Gaza, where thousands are battling shortages of food and water.

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