Thousands in Gaza are struggling in tents in the middle of cold, stormy weather | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Strong winds, rain and winter add the suffering of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, with thousands of families Live in worn tents After their homes were destroyed in the Israeli bombing of the coastal enclave.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to the northern gauze of trial He entered into force last month, stopping the 15-month attack by Israel on the territory. But Most people They found their homes destroyed or badly damaged.
Families have since struggled to find refuge in the middle of the embankment of debris and destruction through the surrounded enclave.
Gaza City spokesman told Al Jazeera that the city does not have enough resources to help displaced in the middle of the Storm, adding that the sewer and rainwater entered hundreds of tents and shelters.
In an interview with Al Jazeeer from an improvised camp in the yard of the Gazi School, Mahmoud Riyad Khalil Al-Fayoumi said he lives in a tent with three other families.
“The blankets are very wet,” Al-Fayoumi said, explaining that he sent his two-month-old child and brother, who has a spinal cord injuries to stay with other people because of sharp weather conditions.
“We don’t know what to do. We don’t know where to go. This is our situation here. “
Reporting from the City of Gaza, Hani Mahmoud Al Jazeera said that heavy rain and wind forced many Palestinians to leave a makeshift camp in the western part of the city.
Basic stocks like warm clothing are also not widely available, worsening the situation.
“People are currently lacking only a shelter here, but also very important supplies that give them a little warmth and protection from these terrible weather conditions,” Mahmoud said.
In your own The latest update On Wednesday, the United Nations Humanitarian Office (Ocha) said with more than 500,000 people returning to Governo’s Gaze and northern gauze, “the need for food, water, tents and materials of shelters in the area remains critical.”
Despite Increased delivery of humanitarian Help since the truce seized on January 19, the help of the shelter is limited.
At the beginning of this week, the Gaza Media Office Defendant Israel Limiting the flow of assistance and shelters to the territory.
“Ensuring the shelter has become an urgent humanitarian need that cannot be delayed. This is the most advanced need at the moment, “the statement said earlier this week.
TESS Ingram, UNICEF Communication Manager, UN Child Rights Agencys, said Palestinians in Gaza are poorly equipped to endure cold weather because they lost so much during the war.
The situation is especially dangerous for children, Ingram told Al Jazeera from the City of Gaza.
“For children in these conditions, it is not only scary to be outside, exposed and cold, but also very dangerous for their well -being,” she said. “We had several children in Gaza Dies of hypothermia And here it is clear when you meet families that they do not have what they need to protect them from that cold. Families lack warm clothes for their children. There are many children without shoes. “
Emigrant Palestinians continue to face difficult conditions and in other parts of the gauze.
“The tent flew away and the people were in a mess,” Saqer Abdelal told Al Jazeera of Deir El-Balah in the central part of the enclave. “Now we transport our things to a man who agreed to host us until winter is over.”
“This is harder for us to move,” said Anwar Hellis, another Palestinian in Deir El-Balah. “We woke up at night and found that our tents were destroyed because of the wind. Our clothes and food were filled with sand.”
In southern Gazi, the Municipality of Rafah requested 40,000 additional tents and units of emergency shelters for residents. The city still hosts thousands of displaced people whose homes have been destroyed in other areas.
The municipality also said that there were not enough heavy machines, which interferes with the reopening of the roads and cleaning the ruins.
