Children suffer as Gaza City camps engulfed by flood waters

Описание: (11 Dec 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 11 December 2025
1. Various of rain falling on the tents of displaced people
2. Various of flooding near tent
3. Various of displaced woman and children pushing rainwater out of their tent
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rawan Soboh, displaced woman:
”We haven’t been able to sleep for two days because of the rain, we spent all night awake. We are watching over the tent and pushing the water out of it. We move the kids from one place to another while they are soaked. There are no mops, towels, no place to put children to sleep.”
5. Various of barefoot children standing on the muddy ground
6. Various of displaced people walking under rain near tents
7. Various of displaced woman checking her twins inside tent
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baraka Bhar, displaced woman from east of Gaza City:
”We spent the entire night pushing water out (of the tent). We got drenched by the water from all sides. The tent is torn from below, and I sewed it. It is miserable. I am a mother, and I have eight kids. There are ten people living in this place. It is very hard. The children are cold. We have no sheets and no clothes. No one is helping us out. As a mother, my children suffer with us. We have nothing left to buy; no covers, no tents, nothing.”
9. Various of Bhar carrying her baby
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baraka Bhar, displaced woman from east of Gaza City:
”Our tents are worn out and the situation is catastrophic. They are torn everywhere and they leak rain. I have children, and I fear for them. We should not lose our children this winter, it is a simple ask really, what is a tent? What is a tarp? The situation is very hard this winter.”
11. Various of displaced woman lifting mattress soaked with rainwater from the ground
12. Various of displaced woman pushing rainwater out of her tent
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aliaa Bahtiti, displaced from east of Gaza city:
”My little boy is 8, and I have no clothes for him. He was soaked tonight, and in the morning, he had turned blue, sleeping on water. I have no idea what to do. We used to sleep on sheets and a mat, without blankets. We have nothing. We got out of Shaaf alone. We cannot buy food, covers, towels, or sheets to sleep on.”
14. Various of boys collecting in rainwater from floor of their tent
15. Various of rainwater flooded near tents of displaced people

STORYLINE:
Rawan Soboh and her children spent Thursday morning in Gaza City removing flood water from their tent to stay dry following heavy rain in the region.

“We haven’t been able to sleep for two days because of the rain, we spent all night awake,” said Soboh, who spent the night watching over her tent and pushing the water out. “There are no mops, towels, and no place to put children to sleep.”

Displaced from eastern Gaza City, Baraka Bhar was caring for her 3-month-old baby twins inside a tent as the rain kept pouring outside.

“Our tents are worn out, and the situation is catastrophic. They are torn everywhere and they leak rain,” Bhar said as she was carrying her 3-month-old who suffers from Hydrocephalus. “We should not lose our children this winter.”

With buckets and mops, the tent camp residents laboriously pushed water out of their tents to save their soaked furniture.

“My little boy is 8, and I have no clothes for him. He was soaked overnight, and in the morning, he had turned blue, sleeping on water,” said Aliaa Bahtiti, whose tent's floor was flooded with inches of water.

“We cannot buy food, covers, towels, or sheets to sleep on.”



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