"Sabah al-Breem, 62, was sitting with one of her daughters and several grandchildren in their current home a makeshift construction of tarpaulins and salvaged wood when the wind and the driving rain broke across Gaza last week. Everything collapsed We repaired our shelter but in the night it fell down again under the heavy rain. All our belongings were soaked."
"This week the half million or so Palestinians living in al-Mawasi, a cramped coastal zone in southern Gaza, are bracing for a grim winter. For many it will be the third that they have faced after being displaced during the conflict. Last week's storm revealed how more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, though they survived the two-year war, still face humanitarian crisis."
A storm struck tent cities along southern Gaza's shore, collapsing makeshift shelters and soaking belongings. Displaced families living in tarpaulins and salvaged wood repeatedly lost repaired shelters during heavy rain. Around half a million people in al-Mawasi face a harsh winter after multiple displacements since October 2023. More than two million Palestinians in Gaza continue to confront a humanitarian crisis. Shelter is the most urgent need as most homes are destroyed, uninhabitable, or lie east of a dividing yellow line under differing control. Displaced residents have nowhere safe to go and face food shortages and unsafe temporary housing.
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