Rain and flooding pile on the misery for Gazans fleeing Israeli bombs

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Heavy rain and strong winds are adding to the misery of thousands of displaced Palestinians who are contending with Israeli bombs, hunger and diseases in tented camps.

With cold winds causing the temperature to plunge overnight, people were forced to sleep under leaking plastic tents as Israeli bombs keep pummelling the Gaza Strip.

Footage on social media showed women and children huddling under wet plastic sheets and men draining rainwater from their tents using trays and buckets.

In a widely circulated video, a man can be seen holding up a Palestinian child as the youngster wades through knee-high water in Jabalia refugee camp.

Kamlia Abu Khadra, a resident of the Nuseirat camp, said most of her family’s clothes are wet and they lack warm blankets.

“Rainwater entered to our tent and everything is wet,” she told media.

“We suffer not only from the cold, we are also hungry,” she said. Her children are waking up hungry and crying for food, she added.

“What we experience now, no one can imagine.”

Alaa Al Jamalaa, who is also living in a tent, said her blankets and mattresses were wet.

“I spent the night trying to take water out from the tent. The water spoiled the food that we had stored,” she said.

“Since yesterday, my children have not eaten and no one came to offer anything for us. And we don’t have money to buy anything.”