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Hazardous destruction sites in Beit Lahiya, north Gaza. Photos by HPH, 8 Sep 2014Beit Hanoun is also a cheaper area, despite the fact that the housing and rentalprices have doubled since the devastation of vast neighbourhood areas.Access to adequate housing and healthy environmental conditions are key underlyingsocial determinants of health. 137 The conditions described above can be expected toadversely impact the health of IDPs and their broader communities, as well as thatof people living near the sites of destruction over the long term.6.2 Hazardous sitesIn response to the destruction of their homes, some families have returned to the siteof these destroyed buildings for lack of better alternatives, or because they cannotafford substitute housing due to the cost of rent, which has been inflated since theconflict. Some families are living in temporary on-site tents. Others are living in theremains of their homes. Adults were observed roaming and children playing amongthe rubble. One of the patients interviewed by the team 138 was a four-year-old childwho had been injured while playing in the rubble after houses in his neighbourhoodin Jabalia, northern Gaza, were destroyed in attacks.The FFM teams observed people who were still living in the higher flats of partiallydestroyed structures, with obvious risk to their safety.The team visited Dr. Hamdi Kahlawi, of the Forensic Department at the morgue ofShifa Hospital in Gaza City on 11 September 2014. 139 The body of a child wrapped137UN CESCR General Comment No. 14, 2000, available at http://www.refworld.org/publisher,CESCR,GENERAL,,4538838d0,0.html , accessed 24 Nov 2014.138Interview sortcode EJM9.139Interview held by the second FFM team.67