میدل-ایست-آی'We hate winter': Palestinians face the rain without shelters as Israel blocks tents
'We hate winter': Palestinians face the rain without shelters as Israel blocks tents
After every downpour, the displacement camp where Hamza al-Mutawwaq is staying turns into a swamp.
Mud clings to shoes and small ponds shimmer between sagging tents, where children slip and parents struggle to stay dry.
“It’s as if people are sleeping on a flowing river of rainwater,” said the Palestinian father, speaking from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
After two years of relentless Israeli bombardment of civilians, almost the entire 2.2 million-strong population now dreads another danger from the sky: rainfall.
Al-Mutawwaq is one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forced to make a home from tents, with more than 80 percent of Gaza’s structures destroyed since October 2023.
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