Profound despair’ driving Palestinians to seek a safe haven outside Gaza

 

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With a ceasefire reached last month largely holding, humanitarian officials are now working frantically to reopen dozens of makeshift schools.

 

John Crickx, a spokesman for the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF, said it's critical for children to return to classes as soon as possible, not just because of basic education but also for their mental health.

 

“In the weeks to come, if we don’t offer education,” he said, there could be “terrible consequences for an entire generation.” UNICEF estimates that over 630,000 Palestinian children missed out on school during the war. Crickx says that so far, only about 100,000 children have been able to return.

 

Most of Gaza's schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class

 

Separately, UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, is providing some education through their contracted teachers — for about 40,000 students. Most of the UNRWA-run schools, which catered to half of the Gaza children before the war, have since turned into shelters for displaced people.

 

Not to worry, Greta's on it. 

Aid agencies have reiterated calls for Israel to allow more tents and urgently needed supplies into Gaza after the first heavy winter rainfall, saying more than a quarter of a million families need emergency help with shelters.

"We are going to lose lives this winter. Children, families will perish," says Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

 

"It's actually so frustrating that we've now lost so many crucial weeks since the adoption of the Trump peace plan, which said humanitarian aid would flow and the Palestinians would not needlessly continue to suffer."

With a majority of the population displaced by two-years of a devastating war, most Gazans now live in tents - many of them makeshift.

 

They have been clearing up after widespread flooding due to a winter storm that began on Friday.

There are fears that diseases could spread as rainwater has mixed with sewage water.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20p3x7vr34o

 

Children and families will perish, warns Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council

 

7 hours ago, bannork said:

"We are going to lose lives this winter. Children, families will perish," says Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

 

That is Israel's plan for them to lose lives, they are totally committed to getting rid of the Palestinians.

Children and families in Gaza scooped muddy water from their tents on Tuesday, trying to protect the few belongings that remain after two years of war. Winter's heavy rains have left displaced Palestinians splashing in water that reaches their ankles, and blaming both Israel and Hamas for the misery that remains despite a ceasefire.

 

“All tents were destroyed,” said Assmaa Fayad in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, whose shelter was damaged in Tuesday’s latest downpour. “Where is Hamas? Where are the people to see this rain and how our children are drowning?"

 

Nearly all of Gaza’s over 2 million people were forced from their homes during the war. Most have been living in tents or shelters, some of them built over destroyed homes, with no proper sewage facilities. For toilets, they depend on cesspits dug near tents that overflow in heavy rainfall.

 

'Everything is soaked': Winter rains in Gaza bring new misery for Palestinian

 

Related video: Flash floods hit the West Bank (Sky News)

 

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On 11/16/2025 at 7:22 AM, JimCM said:

Profound despair’ driving Palestinians to seek a safe haven outside Gaza

 

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At least they can buy iPhones

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRUXmOhEQRy/?igsh=Ymt0bnF4d3h1YzI3

And they are still stuck with Hamas.  No future there.

5 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

And they are still stuck with Hamas.  No future there.

As long as the Palestinians' lives revolve around hating jews, they will always be losers with no future.

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

Especially when they are just pawns in the Islamacist battle to control the world.

 

 

 

Your avatar is most appropriate.

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On 11/26/2025 at 1:54 AM, TedG said:

At least they can buy iPhones

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRUXmOhEQRy/?igsh=Ymt0bnF4d3h1YzI3

 

Thank you for that link.

 

iPhones are produced by Apple and the main shareholders from Apple are: 

 

1. the Vanguard Group, which is a major investors in Israeli government bonds and companies, such as Elbit Systems, that provide military support to Israel.

 

2. BlackRock is a New York City-based investment company that has massive investments in Israel and in companies including Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics that make the weapons Israel uses to murder Palestinians. BlackRock invests in companies that arm the Israeli war machine!

 

Its CEO, Larry Fink, is also an outspoken supporter of the apartheid regime in Israel and is cheering on a regional war.

 

I was just wondering why that shop looked totally clean and unharmed while all around them are ruins.

On 11/26/2025 at 8:01 AM, Yagoda said:

Im proud to represent the Judeo-Christian West against the imperialist colonialist Muslimists. How about you? You like to Wave the Muslim flag in support of child rape, honour killings, beheadings, tossing gays off roofs, stoning women?

 

I am ashamed that there are people raised and born in the West who actually can read and do have history books but obviously only use them to support that broken leg from their kitchen table.

 

That leads to ridiculous malpresentation of history either out of ignorance or out of a pathetic try to rewrite it.

 

Resulting in comparing the (obviously good and honorable) West to the "Imperialist colonialist Muslimists, (a new word created by the scholar) while totally disregarding the fact that Muslims were at best Expansionists of their religion who spared most of the population of those conquered countries if they would convert.

 

Christian Imperialist colonialists like Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Italy established colonies all over the known world and always brutally oppressed the indigenous people either robbing their wealth and resources, taking them as slaves or just mass murdering them and by that committing genocide.

 

Western Colonialism's emphasis on imperialism, land dispossession, resource extraction, and cultural destruction frequently resulted in genocidal practices aimed at attacking Indigenous peoples and existing populations as a means to attain colonial goals.

 

But then again the same people suddenly believe it is ok, in case terrorists take hostages and hide them in a building complex where other innocent people are living, just to go and bomb the whole place. 

 

So we we cannot really expect much of them, can we?

 

 

 

On 11/17/2025 at 9:29 PM, flaming dragon said:

Not to worry, Greta's on it. 

Not funny at all 

On 11/18/2025 at 12:29 AM, flaming dragon said:

Not to worry, Greta's on it. 

 

Well, love her or hate her, doesn`t really matter.

 

But you must give her that: She has bigger balls and a stronger spine than all those US congressmen, who sold themselves to AIPAC.

 

She stands for justice and human rights, opposes mass murder and risked her life for it.

 

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The UK government has criticised delays in aid being allowed into Gaza after a consignment of more than 1,100 tents it sent to the strip took more than a year to arrive.

 

The foreign secretary has also raised concerns that other UK-funded aid had been unable to reach residents, despite the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

 

Yvette Cooper said the situation in Gaza remains "dire" as the United Nations warned that 1.5 million people are in need of urgent shelter amid worsening rains and plummeting temperatures ahead of winter.

The BBC has asked the Israeli government for a response.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlk663555no

 

 

Government sources said the tents will provide shelter to as many as 12,000 people over the winter months.

Cooper said the delay in getting aid into the strip could not be allowed to continue and that all crossings into the territory should be opened to allow unhindered humanitarian access.'

'' Parents have been trying to shelter their children under broken roofs and open skies,'' Cooper said.

 

Heavy rain has flooded tents in the Gaza Strip on a large scale after a storm system struck the region, reports said on Wednesday.

 

Israel and the Palestinian territories have been hit by hours of rain and high winds, exacerbating conditions for the many in the devastated Gaza Strip who are currently living in tents.

 

Photos on social media showed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip attempting to bail water out of their tents with buckets and pots. Children are shown standing ankle-deep and barefoot in water. Citing aid officials, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that many tents had collapsed. People were seeking shelter in overcrowded public buildings with no heating, it said.

 

Flooded tents, collapsing shelters as storm hits Gaza Strip

A displaced Palestinian woman walks in a flooded tent camp following heavy rains in Gaza City. Matar Al-Zaq/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa© DPA International

 

In Gaza, flooded shelters make life unbearable for the displaced.

 

Winter rains and flooding have turned living conditions for displaced and homeless Palestinians in Gaza into absolute misery. Their tents have been inundated, soaking mattresses, clothes and food supplies. 

 

In Gaza, flooded shelters make life unbearable for displaced | Watch

On 12/11/2025 at 3:59 AM, bannork said:

Heavy rain has flooded tents in the Gaza Strip on a large scale after a storm system struck the region, reports said on Wednesday.

 

Israel and the Palestinian territories have been hit by hours of rain and high winds, exacerbating conditions for the many in the devastated Gaza Strip who are currently living in tents.

 

Photos on social media showed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip attempting to bail water out of their tents with buckets and pots. Children are shown standing ankle-deep and barefoot in water. Citing aid officials, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that many tents had collapsed. People were seeking shelter in overcrowded public buildings with no heating, it said.

 

Flooded tents, collapsing shelters as storm hits Gaza Strip

A displaced Palestinian woman walks in a flooded tent camp following heavy rains in Gaza City. Matar Al-Zaq/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa© DPA International

 

 

    Thanks .

The videos are even better ,

Can you post some videos up ?

 

   See if this works 

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Palestinians in Gaza struggled to recover Tuesday from torrential rains that battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby.

 

The downpour, which dumped more than 9 inches of rain on some parts of Gaza over the past week, turned dirt lanes to mud and flooded tents in camps for displaced people.

The Gaza Health Ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, said Tuesday the two-week-old died of hypothermia as a result of the weather. The baby was brought to the hospital a few days ago and was transferred to intensive care but died on Monday.

 

In Gaza City, a man died Tuesday after a home already damaged during Israeli strikes, collapsed because of the heavy rainfall, according to Shifa Hospital. The Health Ministry said the remaining 10 people who were killed last week, died also from buildings collapsing from the rain and heavy winds.

 

Gaza families struggle to recover from days of torrential rains that killed 12 people

 

 

Emergency workers warned people not to congregate in damaged buildings due to concerns of collapse, though so much of the territory has been reduced to rubble, there are few places to escape the rain. In July, the United Nations Satellite Center estimated that almost 80% of the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.

 

Palestinians in Gaza struggled to recover Tuesday from torrential rains that battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby.

 

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On 11/17/2025 at 8:29 PM, flaming dragon said:

Not to worry, Greta's on it. 

All grown up...

Heavy rain lashed the Gaza Strip this weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as displaced Palestinians struggled to stay dry. Tents, frayed by months of use, were inundated, with muddy water soaking blankets and mattresses in camps like Khan Younis.

 

Palestinians receive donated food at a temporary camp for displaced people, on the beach near the port of Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) (Copyright 2025, The Associated Press. All rights reserved)© (Copyright 2025, The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

 

Fragile shelters were propped up with salvaged wood. Children, ill-suited in flip-flops and light clothing, waded through freezing puddles that turned dirt roads into rivers. Some residents desperately used shovels to clear water from their temporary homes.

 

"We drowned last night,” said Majdoleen Tarabein, a woman displaced from Rafah in southern Gaza. “Puddles formed, and there was a bad smell. The tent flew away. We don’t know what to do or where to go.”

She showed blankets and the remaining contents of the tent, completely soaked and covered in mud, as she and family members tried to wring them dry by hand.

 

A Palestinian child carries a bag of flour on his back at a makeshift camp on the beach, in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) (Copyright 2025, The Associated Press. All rights reserved)© (Copyright 2025, The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

 

“When we woke up in the morning, we found that the water had entered the tent,” said Eman Abu Riziq, also displaced in Khan Younis, as she pointed to a puddle just outside. “These are the mattresses — they are all completely soaked. My daughters’ belongings were soaked. The water is entering from here and there,” she said, gesturing toward the ceiling and the corners of the tent. Her family is still reeling from her husband’s recent death, and the constant struggle to stay dry in the winter rains.

 

Freezing rain floods Gaza as the displaced face even worse conditions

 

Emergency workers warned people not to stay in damaged buildings because they could collapse at any moment. But so much of the territory reduced to rubble, there are few places to escape the rain.

Over the past two weeks, the rain has been relentless. Cold, heavy, and driven by strong winds, it has soaked tents, flooded makeshift camps and turned open ground into mud. Elsewhere, this might be called “bad weather”. In Gaza, it is lived with exposure and abandonment.

 

 

Palestinians know this time of year as al-Arba’iniya; the 40 coldest and harshest days of winter, beginning in late December and lasting until the end of January. It is the true beginning of winter, the moment when the season reveals its full force. Normally, it is endured with preparation and shelter. This year, Gaza has neither. The cold bites through homes, streets are empty and people simply endure.

No one should have to study, raise children, or fight illness standing ankle-deep in cold water inside a tent

 

Walking past the camp nearest my home, I saw the consequences up close. Thin plastic sheets sagged under the weight of water, mattresses floated and clothes hung damply, never fully drying. Each step reminded me how fragile these shelters were and how close the rain and cold came to claiming life and health for hundreds of thousands living in tents and overcrowded shelters.

 

During a fierce storm I could hear the panicked screams of children in tents outside. This is Christmas in Gaza

 

 

 

On 12/16/2025 at 11:57 AM, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    Thanks .

The videos are even better ,

Can you post some videos up ?

 

   See if this works 

Aware of which side you are always defending, I was at first surprised about you posting videos of the Israel made suffering in Gaza and commenting that the videos are even better than the pics.

Then, after a bit of reflecting on that, the penny dropped.

Well, at least I finally understand that English word I could not completely get my head around for quite some time:

Disaster Porn.

Four people, including a teenage girl, have died in Gaza after walls collapsed onto their tents during severe overnight rainfall and strong winds, hospital authorities confirmed on Tuesday. The fatalities highlight the precarious living conditions across the Palestinian territory, which has been grappling with the aftermath of more than two years of devastating Israeli bombardment and persistent aid shortfall

People inspect the site where at least four Palestinians died following the collapse of walls onto tents sheltering displaced people in Gaza City amid rainfall and strong winds, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) (Copyright 2026, The Associated Press. All rights reserved)© (Copyright 2026, The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Shifa hospital, Gaza City’s largest medical facility, received the casualties and identified the deceased as two women, a 15-year-old girl, and a 72-year-old man. One of the women was killed when a wall fell onto her tent in the western part of the city. In a separate, incident along the Mediterranean shore of Gaza City, the other woman, the teenager, and the elderly man, all from the same family, died under a collapsed wall. At least five other individuals were injured in this second collapse.

Several dead as strong winds hit Gaza’s tent camps

Have you suggested they consider camping in the tunnel network where they held so many hostages, and where Hamas lived in relative comfort?

With the daytime highs reaching 18c it should be ok. Not too hot and not too cold.

6 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Have you suggested they consider camping in the tunnel network where they held so many hostages, and where Hamas lived in relative comfort?

With the daytime highs reaching 18c it should be ok. Not too hot and not too cold.

Who destroyed all their houses, schools, mosques, etc?

Do you support Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ban Gvir's plan to get all Gazans out to other countries?

Yes or no will suffice.