‘Helpless’: The families facing winter in tents on the beach in Gaza
Summary
Displaced families in tents on Gaza’s coast face winter rain, cold, wind, and flooding, with many unable to afford or find safer shelter. A local aid group is making barriers from damaged cooking pots filled with soil to help keep seawater away from tents.Key Facts
- Anas al-Shami, 33, and his family of six live in a dilapidated tent near al-Qarara port.
- Al-Shami says his family left Bani Suheila after the area became part of the Israeli-designated Yellow Zone.
- He says seawater and rain flooded his tent last winter, soaking bedding and belongings and leaving his children exposed to cold and damp.
- Ibrahim Abu Tair, 47, shares a cramped tent on the shoreline with his seven children.
- Abu Tair says he cannot provide his children with winter clothes or a dry mattress.
- Some families have filled damaged cooking pots with soil to form barriers against seawater.
- Mayasem Association, working with World Central Kitchen, is producing the pot barriers for displaced families near al-Qarara port.
- The barriers use three soil-filled pots stacked to about 150 centimetres high.
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