The pain of Gaza refugees in winter; Thousands of tents drowned in floods
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, referring to the dire situation of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with the arrival of the winter season, announced that more than 1,500 tents of the refugees were drowned in the flood, according to the Palestinian Shahab news agency. It has been.
The information office affiliated to the General Directorate of Civil Defense of Gaza reported that 1,542 tents for the accommodation of displaced persons in camps and shelters in the Gaza Strip were flooded by rainwater. Rescue teams checked hundreds of tents that were under more than 30 centimeters of water and found that many of the displaced people were shivering due to the cold weather. And they suffer from the dire consequences of being displaced in the cold.
This institution affiliated with the Gaza Civil Defense Department stressed that the teams of this department in Gaza province They found 242 tents submerged in water. In Rafah province, more than 170 tents in “Al-Bahr street and “Fash Farsh” were drowned in water.
According to this report, in Khan Yunis and in its different neighborhoods, more than 665 The tents are submerged in water. 210 tents were seriously damaged in the center of the Gaza Strip due to the heavy rain.
The information office of the Civil Defense Department of Gaza announced that these tents are exposed to rainwater leakage at a level of more than 30 cm and hundreds of other tents were damaged by rainwater. seriously and the displaced residents are no longer able to use these tents.