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A new storm has once again hit the devastated Gaza Strip this Tuesday, flooding and damaging the already very precarious tents, in which more than two years after the start of the Israeli offensive, thousands of displaced Palestinian families continue to live in dire conditions.
"Animals live better than us," shouts a desperate Palestinian in Gaza City while showing EFE one of the many tents that have been flooded by the heavy rains that have fallen during this day in the Palestinian enclave.
"After half an hour, the shops turned into a sea. We need a solution", demands this Palestinian.
"The world doesn't care about us now," laments an indignant Gazan retiree while walking in flip-flops and soaked clothes among muddy tents. The cold and heavy rainfall also worry Mena Ismael Husein, a Palestinian woman who gave birth just three days ago. "I am very afraid because the previous winter I did not have a child, but now I do. I need to take care of my baby and I want a store and shelter for him, but there is nothing. The water, as you see, is falling on us," he explains. This woman laments that the shelter she has for herself and her son is a tent that she erected with three iron bars, the only thing she has been able to find in a Gaza surrounded by rubble and ruins from the Israeli bombings. "The child needs to warm up, but there's nothing to cover him. I made a tent with three iron bars, but I have no more possibilities to do anything else," he adds. Third winter without shelter
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently denounced that the entry of tents is currently restricted by Israel and also the essential equipment for the maintenance of rainwater drainage and the repair of sanitation networks. "Since October 10, 2025, at least nine attempts by the UN and its partners to enter tent camps have been rejected," reports a recent OCHA report. The truth is that the arrival of the ceasefire in Gaza, in effect for more than a month, has not changed the harsh reality in which Palestinians continue to live, surrounded by tons of rubble and with most of the buildings destroyed by the bombings that Israel has launched in more than two years. This is, in fact, the third winter since Israel began its invasion of Gaza in October 2023 in which Palestinians face low temperatures and rain without having adequate shelters. International organizations have been asking Israel for weeks to allow, above all, the entry of prefabricated houses so that Palestinians can at least spend the months with adverse weather conditions.
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The scenario the Palestinian population encountered early this Tuesday was the same as they experienced a few weeks ago when the first rains of the season in Gaza were recorded, which affected more than 13,000 Palestinian families and left thousands of tents damaged, according to data provided by the UN.
Giving birth in a tent"The world doesn't care about us now," laments an indignant Gazan retiree while walking in flip-flops and soaked clothes among muddy tents. The cold and heavy rainfall also worry Mena Ismael Husein, a Palestinian woman who gave birth just three days ago. "I am very afraid because the previous winter I did not have a child, but now I do. I need to take care of my baby and I want a store and shelter for him, but there is nothing. The water, as you see, is falling on us," he explains. This woman laments that the shelter she has for herself and her son is a tent that she erected with three iron bars, the only thing she has been able to find in a Gaza surrounded by rubble and ruins from the Israeli bombings. "The child needs to warm up, but there's nothing to cover him. I made a tent with three iron bars, but I have no more possibilities to do anything else," he adds. Third winter without shelter
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently denounced that the entry of tents is currently restricted by Israel and also the essential equipment for the maintenance of rainwater drainage and the repair of sanitation networks. "Since October 10, 2025, at least nine attempts by the UN and its partners to enter tent camps have been rejected," reports a recent OCHA report. The truth is that the arrival of the ceasefire in Gaza, in effect for more than a month, has not changed the harsh reality in which Palestinians continue to live, surrounded by tons of rubble and with most of the buildings destroyed by the bombings that Israel has launched in more than two years. This is, in fact, the third winter since Israel began its invasion of Gaza in October 2023 in which Palestinians face low temperatures and rain without having adequate shelters. International organizations have been asking Israel for weeks to allow, above all, the entry of prefabricated houses so that Palestinians can at least spend the months with adverse weather conditions.
