{"id":24681,"date":"2025-11-18T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=24681"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:25:46","slug":"winter-rains-deepen-gazas-humanitarian-crisis-as-shelters-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/winter-rains-deepen-gazas-humanitarian-crisis-as-shelters-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Rains Deepen Gaza\u2019s Humanitarian Crisis as Shelters Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GAZA CITY \u2014 Aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza after the first heavy winter rains flooded makeshift tents and temporary shelters, leaving families ankle\u2011deep in sewage\u2011tainted water and raising fears of disease and death. More than a quarter of a million Palestinian families, displaced by two years of war, are in urgent need of shelter, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are going to lose lives this winter. Children, families will perish,\u201d said Jan Egeland, the council\u2019s secretary general, who described the situation as a \u201cbureaucratic, military, politicised quagmire\u201d that has blocked vital supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flooding has underscored the fragility of Gaza\u2019s improvised shelters. Fatima Hamdona, a mother in Gaza City, wept as she showed a journalist the puddles inside her tent. \u201cMy children are already sick. We don\u2019t have food \u2014 the flour got all wet. We\u2019re people who\u2019ve been destroyed. Where do we go?\u201d she said. Similar scenes played out in Khan Younis, where families tried to dry mattresses and blankets ruined by the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many tents have fallen to pieces, leaving displaced Palestinians without proper shelter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A recent United Nations report found that more than 80 percent of Gaza\u2019s buildings have been destroyed, including 92 percent in Gaza City. Aid groups say about 1.5 million people are without adequate shelter. Since the U.S.\u2011brokered ceasefire took effect in October, only 19,000 tents have entered Gaza, far short of the 260,000 families in need. Tens of thousands of pallets of aid remain stuck in Egypt, Jordan and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s defense body, Cogat, said it has coordinated the entry of nearly 190,000 tents and tarpaulins in recent months and insisted that hundreds of trucks carrying food, fuel, medicine and shelter supplies are entering daily. It urged international organizations to coordinate more winter aid through the new U.S.\u2011led Civil\u2011Military Coordination Center in southern Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But aid groups say restrictions, including Israel\u2019s classification of tent poles as \u201cdual\u2011use\u201d items with potential military applications, have slowed deliveries. They also object to new registration rules requiring lists of Palestinian staff, which they argue violate donor countries\u2019 data protection laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the rain came, the tents couldn’t protect us,” says Rami Deif Allah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, tents already inside Gaza are being stolen and sold on the black market, residents told the BBC. Prices have dropped from more than 2,700 Dollars before the ceasefire to about 900 Dollars, but many families still cannot afford them. \u201cUntil this moment, people are re\u2011erecting broken tents because they don\u2019t have any alternative,\u201d said Alaa al\u2011Dirghali in Khan Younis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For families like Rami Deif Allah\u2019s, the struggle is relentless. Displaced from Beit Hanoun, he said his family has evacuated 11 times. Even a waterproof tent provided by relatives could not withstand the storm. \u201cThe water flooded us from above and below,\u201d he said. \u201cWe pray for this war to be fully over, and for everyone to return to their homes. Even if we don\u2019t find our houses standing, with our sweat and blood we will rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a donor conference on Gaza reconstruction expected soon in Cairo, aid groups warn that long\u2011term plans will mean little if basic shelter supplies are not allowed in immediately. \u201cIt would not be a good thing if all these nations meet to discuss reconstruction while Palestinians die before their homes can be rebuilt,\u201d Egeland said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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