Heard of Sderot? Welcome to its neighboring Palestinian population center, Jabaliya -- the Palestinian refugee camp closest to Israel's southern border with Gaza. Just over that border are the Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Israel in 1948 and were once home to the majority of Gaza's refugees, who now number more than 1.2 million. More of them are concentrated in Jabaliya than in any other of Gaza's eight UN-administered camps. In fact, the UN counts some 110,000 people packed into 1.4 square kilometers. That's less than a square mile, which makes Jabaliya's population density more than three times that of Manhattan. Unlike Manhattanites, though -- or, more to the point, unlike their neighbors in Sderot -- Gaza's refugees have nowhere to flee when heavy rains, as in this video, flood their 25-mile occupied territory, blockaded by land, air, and sea.
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