Heavy rain on Saturday (November 7, 2026) flooded tens of thousands of displaced people’s tents in war-devastated Gaza, Palestinian authorities said, leaving them without shelter.
Mustafa Qazzaat, a member of the Gaza city council and an official in the Strip’s emergency committee, said Israel has not allowed prefabricated homes to shelter the displaced in Gaza since the truce was announced, and has only permitted the entry of limited numbers of tents.
My children ask me where we will sleep tonight, and I have no answer”. Maryam Odeh, 34, who lives with her children in Deir al-Balah, said, “We no longer know how to protect our children.
In a statement, the Hamas-run government media office said that about “70,000 tents sheltering tens of thousands of displaced people were flooded on the first day” of rains. For his part, Khaled al-Najjar, 41, said, “We fear for our children not only from the flooding of the tents, but also from the cold and the widespread diseases”. A coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations warned in a statement of “the catastrophe that has come to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents”, pointing to the risk of the spread of diseases and epidemics.
