In the Rafah Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip, the rain caused panic among the displaced woman, Reem Al-Saqqa, inside one of the shelters affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and she quickly rushed to collect their clothes, which she hung up to dry in the morning as the sun rose.
Al-Saqqa (36 years old) was crying bitterly inside a small tent that her family had set up in the courtyard of the shelter center, when she saw that the clothes were completely wet with rainwater.
Those displaced by the Israeli war on Gaza are living in tragic conditions that cannot be described in words. They have witnessed all kinds of suffering.
The displaced woman from Gaza describes her condition and the condition of others like her after she was displaced from the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza: “There is no roof here to protect us, no wall to relieve us of the severity of the cold, and the rain increases our suffering and destroys our hard-earned possessions.”
persistent need
In the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, the displaced live in tents that do not protect them from the winter cold, and quickly become submerged with water with the first rain showers.
The young man Akram Al-Ghazali, displaced from northern Gaza, is trying to alleviate his suffering by covering the primitive tent he set up in that area with pieces of nylon.
He tries to protect his covers and mattresses, but to no avail, as the rain has soaked all those light covers in moments.
Al-Ghazali fled his home in Jabalia, carrying a light weight of clothes and belongings, hoping to return to his home after the end of his suffering, if the house was still standing.
With the onset of winter, the displaced people’s need for humanitarian aid appears urgent, amid international calls and demands urging the speedy introduction and increase of its quantities.
Beyond human capacity
Bilal Al-Hato (45 years old), another displaced person who lives with his family inside a house under construction west of the city of Deir Al-Balah in the Central Governorate, told Anadolu Agency that the most difficult thing about this aggression is that we are forced to face bombing, fear, rain and cold at the same time, and this is beyond the ability of humans to endure.
As he sat in front of a fire he lit to keep warm and cook small amounts of food for his family of 8 people, he pointed out the severe shortage of food supplies and food aid being distributed to the displaced.
Al-Hato sometimes tries to overcome hunger with small amounts of food, but fear and cold are feelings beyond human control, and he cannot control them, as he describes.
Thousands of Palestinians continue to flee from various areas of the Gaza Strip to escape the bombing and ground military operations launched by the Israeli army.
Since October 7, the occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which as of Tuesday evening has left 18,412 dead and 50,100 wounded, most of them children and women, according to Palestinian sources, and massive destruction to infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to UN sources.