US EditionFirst Major Winter Rains Pummel Gaza, Destroying Makeshift Shelters
More than 1 million displaced Palestinians face worsening conditions as tents collapse and hospitals flood amid restricted aid deliveries, the United Nations reports.
- On November 14, 2025, heavy winter rains flooded Gaza City streets and tent encampments, mixing rubble into mud and soaking displaced Palestinians' scant belongings.
- The season's first heavy rain struck Muwasi tent camp in the Gaza Strip amid two years of war that displaced around 90% of roughly 2 million Palestinians living in fragile shelters.
- Residents in camps dug trenches and used buckets and brooms Saturday to divert water as rain leaked through tents and tarpaulins.
- The U.N. warns nearly 1.5 million need emergency shelter while more than 6,490 tons of UN‑coordinated relief materials have been denied entry, flooding hospitals and worsening conditions.
- Israel has continued to heavily restrict aid entry despite the ceasefire on Oct. 10, while the U.N. Security Council next week will vote on a U.S. proposal amid hostage remains complications.
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The winter has arrived in the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, after only a few hours of rain, the tents of the displaced have flooded.The reporters of Al Jazeera on site tell that the Palestinians are using buckets to try to drain the water that flooded their tents.Most of the fields are not equipped for heavy rains and families are unable to provide winter clothes and shoes to their children The article Gaza, the winter has arrived: the tents of the …
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Displaced Palestinian families in Gaza woke up to find water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall left their shelters and belongings soaked. It is now the third winter they have endured since the start of the two-year Israeli genocide.
Tents in Gaza Collapse From Rain as Palestinians Struggle With Massive Flooding
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