Haiti is facing a surge of gang violence. These are the people who have been displaced

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A mother holds her child inside a former church hall that was being used as a displacement shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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This aerial photo shows a cemetery near the airport in Port-au-Prince.

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Displaced Haitians take shelter at the Rex Medina theater in downtown Port-au-Prince. The former theater was closed after the country’s devastating earthquake in 2010, but it was reopened in August by a group of local residents seeking safety from gangs.

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Abandoned vehicles serve as barricades in Port-au-Prince to prevent non-pedestrian access, limiting the risk of kidnappings and gang attacks. “Over the years, I had covered many different stories and regions of Haiti with relative freedom of movement,” photographer Giles Clarke said. “It was shocking to arrive back in Port-au-Prince under new levels of severe threat and risk.”

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An ill woman is dropped off by a friend at the UNICEF-supported Fontaine Hospital in Port-au-Prince. The Fontaine Hospital provides free health care in one of the most troubled areas of Port-au-Prince.

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Displaced people charge their phones at a school that has been converted into a displacement camp.

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Tents are set up at the Gymnasium Vincent, a school and sports complex that has become a displacement camp in downtown Port-au-Prince.

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Displaced women and children take shelter in a school gymnasium after fleeing their homes.

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A Haitian woman waits for other family members at a settlement that was a former school in Port-au-Prince.

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Schools, churches and sports halls have been improvised as emergency shelters to house the sudden influx of displaced residents.

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A displaced family lives at the Rex Medina theater in Port-au-Prince.

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People take shelter at a boxing arena in downtown Port-au-Prince.

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A man who recently fled from his home walks down the corridor of a former school that has been turned into a shelter.

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A man carries sandwiches to sell at a displacement camp in Port-au-Prince. Inflation has soared past 50%, leaving 4.9 million Haitians struggling to eat.

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A medical team at the UNICEF-supported Fontaine Hospital help a child who was injured in a traffic accident.

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A family, driven from their home just hours earlier, set up shelter at an abandoned school in Port-au-Prince.

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A woman and her daughter prepare a meal at a shelter in Port-au-Prince.

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This children’s playground has been converted into a shelter in the Tabarre area of Port-au-Prince.

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A woman resides with other family members at an abandoned building in the Delmas 4 area of Port-au-Prince. Help is on the way to Haiti in the form of an armed multinational force, but Clarke says not all Haitians are optimistic. “Many Haitians fear a multinational deployment, which could undoubtedly lead to running street battles with the now heavily armed gangs,” he said. “Many others cannot trust any internationally brokered political outcome, adding a new level of confusion and despair gripping an already crippled society.”