(31 Dec 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 31 December 2024
1. Displaced family carrying their belongings out of their tent soaked in rainwater
2. Slippers float on the rainwater that flooded the tent
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Lubbad, displaced woman from Gaza:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 & 5++
"I’m drowning, I’m drowning; me, my tent, and my belongings are all swimming inside the tent. I take everything out to the street. We are dead inside, we are not alive, we are not living; why is this happening?"
4. Tent for displaced people, overwhelmed by rainwater
5. Children running next to tents in the rain
6. Displaced man standing inside his tent, its roof dripping with rainwater
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Diab, displaced person from Jabaliya:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8, 9, 10 & 11++
"Enough. We are unable to bear it. Find a solution for us. What more are you waiting for? That we all die? Throw nuclear weapons at us so that we will all end up and die, or leave us to live. Find a solution for us, oh presidents, oh world. For God’s sake, find a solution for us. It is enough. You see, how long will we remain in this torment? In the summer there was intense heat and we could bear it, but in the winter we drowning and we were unable to bear it."
8. Rainwater drips through roof of the tent
9. Various of Diab pushing out the rainwater collected in the roof of his tent, rainwater drips through holes in the tent
10. Container inside Diab’s tent to collect rainwater falling from the roof
11. Alleyway between tents
12. Children inside tent
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Mansour Jindiya, displaced from Gaza City:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 14, 15 & 16++
"Life is difficult; difficult, difficult. I am 53 years old, and I have never been as tired as I have been last year and this year. We come from good families and once had homes. But they threw us away like this. No one cares about us, and no one even gives us a piece of nylon to cover our tent."
14. Displaced man pushing rainwater from the roof of his tent
15. Torn tent
16. Various of displaced people, children walking next to tents near a pool of rainwater
STORYLINE:
Rainfall has inundated tents sheltering displaced families across war-torn Gaza Strip following a week of heavy rains and strong winds.
Many tents were flooded over the past two days, adding to the misery of 2.3 million people trapped in more than 20 months of war between Hamas and Israel.
Manal Lubbad, a displaced woman from Gaza City, said the rainfall overwhelmed her tent in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
"I’m drowning, I’m drowning; me, my tent, and my belongings are all swimming inside the tent. I take everything out to the street," she added.
Hundreds of thousands of them are now living in squalid camps of tents packed close together over large areas.
Sewage runs into the streets, and food and water are hard to obtain.
Winter is setting in. Families often have only a few clothes after leaving many belongings behind as they fled. They often wear the same clothes for weeks.
Muhammad Diab, a 53-year-old Palestinian from Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, urged the international community to help end the war.
“Enough. We are unable to bear it. Find a solution for us,” he said. “You see, how long will we remain in this torment? In the summer there was intense heat and we could bear it, but in the winter we were flooded and we were unable to bear it.”
Israel’s 14-month-old campaign in Gaza has driven more than 90% of its 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes.
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