Women and girls getting their periods in Gaza face humiliating conditions and infections, forced to use diapers or scraps of cloth after more than two months of war.Food, water and sanitary items are in desperately short supply across Gaza as around 80 percent of its 2.4 million people have been displaced by the conflict between Israel and Hamas."I cut up my kid's clothes or any piece of cloth I find, and I use them like sanitary towels for my period," said 25-year-old Hala Ataya in the southern city of Rafah where many have fled.
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