Freezing rain floods Gaza camps and leaves displaced Palestinians in dire conditions

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD
Updated 8:17 AM CST, December 28, 2025

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by the two-year war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use.

Muddy water soaked blankets and mattresses in tents in a camp in Khan Younis and fragile shelters were propped up with old pieces of wood. Children wearing flip-flops and light clothing ill-suited for winter waded through the freezing puddles, which turned dirt roads into rivers. Some people used shovels to try to push the water out of their tents.
Nowhere to escape the rain

“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.



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[AloeVera]

1. Unconscionable.

Amidst these appalling conditions, is Israel STILL refusing to allow in tents and mobile homes? Asking for compassionate people everywhere...

[popsdenver]

5. Not to mention

food and medical supplies that he isn't allowing to reach Gaza citizens.......

And again, Beni couldn't be doing this without the enabling of Trump, the Republican U.S. House Members, the Republican U.S. Senators, and even the Republican Justices in the USSC.......

Beni is committing GENOCIDE, on a massive scale, while the U.S. and world sits idly by and watches.....

[PSPS]

2. And this gives erections to "bibi" and his cabinet of lunatics

Oh, well. Anything to keep "bibi" in power and, thus, out of prison for his corruption.

[Bayard]

3. Bibi probably tells people its a sign from God

The heathens are being smited.

I'm afraid that bad smell the woman mentioned is washing human waste everywhere. Disease is about to kill off the rest of these people.

[AloeVera]

4. They are surrounded by garbage. Living next to untreated garbage.

Because - of course - Israel has placed Gaza's main landfill site just inside the Israeli-occupied zone. So there is no place to take the garbage.

Anything and everything to inflict more misery and disease and kill people off faster. Fewer of them to ship off and " cleanse" to Somaliland.