(6 Feb 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 6 February 2025
1. Various of tents for displaced people getting blown away by strong winds, destroyed tents, displaced people tying their tent with ropes
2. Various of displaced people collecting their belongings from the places of their shelter
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saqer Abdelal, displaced from northern Gaza Strip:
"The tent flew away, as you can see, and the people were in disarray. We are now transporting our belongings to a man who agreed to host us. He said, “Come to us for two days until the cold front ends."
4. Various of Abdelal collecting wood from debris of his tent
5. Various of tents for displaced people shaken and damaged by strong winds
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anwar Hellis, displaced from Gaza City:
"This is more difficult for us than displacement. We woke up at night and found our tents destroyed above us due to the wind, and our clothes and food were filled with sand. We had wanted to return for a week, but we had no money for transportation."
7. Various of women collecting their belongings, tents blown away by strong winds
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kawkab Hamouda, displaced from Gaza:
"We were sitting here in the safety of God. After the afternoon, something like an earthquake occurred, and the wood collapsed on us. I have two children in the hospital. One of them had two stitches in his head, and the other was injured by this metal rod which fell on him."
9. Various of Hamouda showing the damage in her tent
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kawkab Hamouda, displaced from Gaza:
"What did we do wrong? We are dying, we have no food. Look at the tent, I swear to God, I do not have the money for a bag of bread, I swear to God, I do not have money to buy them food. Should I beg? I come from a life of comfort and dignity, I was living decently and comfortably in the north. Who can I turn to now? To whom? (Crying)."
11. Various of displaced people collecting their belongings
STORYLINE:
Turbulent weather is compounding the challenges facing displaced people in Gaza, where strong winds, heavy rains and dropping temperatures are making tents and other temporary shelters uninhabitable.
Strong winds caused extensive damage to the tents of displaced Palestinians in the central city of Deir al-Balah, adding further hardship to the difficult lives many face in the Gaza Strip.
Some saw the plastic tents where they live get completely destroyed while rushing to save what they could.
Displaced families said that the weather conditions caused them to lose their tents and what remained of their clothes and blankets.
Kawkab Hamouda said her tent collapsed on top of her family due to strong winds, injuring her two grandchildren.
"Something like an earthquake occurred, and the wood collapsed on us. I have two children in the hospital," she said.
"What did we do wrong? We are dying, we have no food. Look at the tent, I swear to God, I do not have the money for a bag of bread," Hamouda said, crying.
While about 500,000 displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza in recent weeks, many others remain in Muwasi and other areas of southern and central Gaza.
Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza, launched after Hamas’ attack in 2023, wreaked havoc on the territory, killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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