Omar Marridi
Chief, Relief & Social Services Division, Jordan Field

Flea traps!

"I remember in the fifties, when we were living in the Gaza refugee barracks, we had to line up and then open our shirts to be sprayed with DDT against fleas and lice, but the fleas became immune and some families set up flea traps!"

Prize winners at the "Health and Cleanliness Day",
Bureij camp, Gaza, in the early 1950s.