‘Tents Don’t Protect Us’: Rains Flood Displaced Palestinians in Gaza
- More than 70,000 tents sheltering displaced Palestinians flooded during the first 12 hours of heavy rainfall late last week, according to The Gaza Government Media Office.
- Israel has systematically destroyed more than 90 percent of Gaza's infrastructure while blocking the entry of essential shelter supplies, including mobile homes and tents, for more than two years.
- Displaced Palestinian Nahla Majdoub described her family's struggle as their tent collapsed during the storm, leaving them without dry belongings after being displaced multiple times.
- The latest storm killed five people and wounded dozens more as sand embankments collapsed, causing initial financial losses estimated at more than $3m, the Government Media Office told Middle East Eye.
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs data shows Gaza requires approximately 121,000 tents, yet analyst Talal Abu Rokbeh argues the crisis obscures political questions about self-determination.
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der Standard DEWinter storms exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip: floods destroy tens of thousands of emergency shelters, thousands of families face nothing more
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip live in tents or temporary shelters – many of them flooded after heavy rains.
One year after the cease-fire, the reconstruction promised by the Trump Peace Council remains a dead letter. The Israeli army conditions any entry of materials to the complete disarmament of Hamas, reversing the UN sequenceThey are six little children, crouched from the ground, the water reaching almost their shoulders. "Pray for us," calls Mohammed Hussein, contacted Monday on the phone in Gaza. The images shot by this thirty-year-old Palestini…
Francesca Albanzi described the fact that Gazan children remained in tents flooded by rain and floods without protection from the cold of winter as the shame of our times, as the displacement and shelter crisis worsened.
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