Winter rains fear more morbidity and mortality in Gaza –

Diseases are on the rise and more people are feared dead due to the winter rains in Gaza. Aid agencies have reiterated calls for Israel to allow more tents and urgently needed supplies. They say more than two and a half lakh families are in need of shelter as well as emergency assistance. BBC news.

“We are going to lose lives this winter,” said Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Our children and family members will die. “It’s really disappointing that we’ve lost important moments since the Trump peace plan was adopted,” he said. The plan stated that humanitarian aid would be provided and that Palestinians would not suffer intolerable suffering.

Most of the Palestinians are now displaced by the nearly two-year-old conflict. Most people in Gaza now live in tents, many of them temporary.

A winter storm that started on Friday has created severe flooding conditions. There is a risk of disease spreading due to rain water mixing with sewage water.

“My children are already sick and look what has happened to our tents,” said a tearful Palestinian woman, Fatima Hamdona, as she showed a freelance BBC journalist ankle-deep water inside her makeshift home in Gaza City.

He said, we have no food, all the flour is wet. We are a doomed people. Where do we go? Now we have no shelter to go to.

A similar situation was observed in the southern city of Khan Yunis. A Palestinian named Nihad Shabat said, “Our clothes, mattresses and blankets have been submerged.” On Monday he was trying to dry his belongings.

His family is sleeping in a shelter made of sheets and blankets. He said, we are afraid of floods again. We cannot afford to buy a tent. According to a recent UN report, more than 80 percent of buildings across Gaza have been destroyed, and 92 percent of buildings in Gaza City have been destroyed.

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