Danielle has since bought bunk beds for her older children and has a travel cot for one-year-old Cameron - but says there are other concerns about such a long stay in a hotel, where she has to wash plates in the shower.

People who have managed to stay in the north throughout the war fear that pressure for accommodation, already acute, will get worse as civilians return and look to move back into homes abandoned over a year ago.

"There's a huge problem because people used to stay in houses of relatives or friends who are in the south," says Asmaa Tayeh, whose family had to flee Jabaliya but never left the north.

"If they lost everything and the reconstruction process is delayed, I think people will not stay in Gaza."

“I see no justification to not let people stay in our park,” Weisfield said.