By Eric Tlozek, ChΓ©rine Yazbeck and journalists inside Gaza for ABC News
Photo: AFP / MAJDI FATHI
Homeless Gazans are begging the Israeli government to allow proper shelters into the strip as winter storms batter the enclave and destroy many people's tents.
About 1.5 million Gazans - three-quarters of the population - are living in tents or makeshift shelters, but the Israeli government is refusing to allow caravans, temporary housing or building materials into the strip.
Aid agencies said that decision had left most of the population cold and struggling in miserable conditions, exposed to hypothermia and disease in unsanitary conditions.
The Ministry of He
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