Wayd Najm manufactures cleaning materials in a primitive way to limit the spread of epidemics and skin diseases among the displaced population in the city of Deir al-Balah as Gazans struggle to find cleaning materials. Soaps, washing powders, and liquids for washing the hair and body have become increasingly scarce in the Gaza Strip with reports of skin rashes and lice spreading fast. More than 150,000 people in the Palestinian territory have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced Gazans have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7, according to the World Health Organization. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES