Rain pounded the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep water as Palestinians displaced by Israel's two-year genocidal war struggled to stay dry in worn, weather-beaten tents.
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.
"We drowned last night," said Majdoleen Tarabein, a woman displaced from Rafah in southern Gaza
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