Rahaf is constantly waiting for water.
Early each morning, she goes to a desalination plant in Khan Younis, a southern Gaza city on which Israel has inflicted massive destruction.
You can see the long line from afar.
There are hundreds of people of all ages. Most of them carry yellow or blue 40-liter jerrycans.
Many have come from shelters several kilometers away. They use shopping carts, wheelchairs and even baby strollers to transport their containers.
Rahaf, 20, fled her home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, during the early stages of the current genocidal war. She is now taking shelter at a school in Khan Younis.
Her two brothers were injured in an Israeli attack and had to undergo amputations. Following the attack, Rahaf assumed responsibility for fetching water.
“It is a difficult and frustrating task for a young woman,” she said.
Rahaf puts the water containers on her mother’s wheelchair and then pushes it through streets that are in deplorable conditions.
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Rahaf uses her mother’s wheelchair to transport water containers. (Fedaa al-Qedra)