Whether directing traffic or controlling prices, a group of vigilantes is determined to uphold order as five months of war have shattered any semblance of normalcy in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Their faces covered with black balaclavas, the so-called “Popular Committees of Protection” patrol Rafah where vast numbers of displaced people have sought refuge. “We are hundreds of individuals and volunteers maintaining security and protecting citizens from high prices, organising public markets and transport,” said 28-year-old Abu Mahmud. About 1.5 million of the territory’s 2.3 million resi…