tent city

Thirty-one year old Montaser Masoud told me he had joined al-Astal's new tent city two months ago with his wife and four children, crossing the Yellow Line at night to avoid Hamas, and after coordination with Israeli forces.

His group is small - maybe tens of fighters - but is increasingly confident, and runs a well-supplied tent city near Khan Younis.

“Not only was he corrupt, he was a killer,” the 93-year-old, infamous for racially profiling Latinos and housing them in a “tent city,” told me.

“Maybe next week we’ll be able to go back,” Qudaih said from Al Mawasi, an overcrowded tent city along the beach in the southern Gaza Strip.

Over the last few weeks, a massive tent city has risen at the Orange County base — about 25 miles southeast of downtown L.A.