Winter increases the tragic conditions of displaced people in Gaza (Al-Jazeera)

GAZA – After managing to escape the "fangs of death" in Gaza City, Gazan mother Aya Haboub faces a new challenge: protecting her one-week-old baby girl Tia from the cold and winter rains.

In a tent of 19 people, set up in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, the young mother says that her baby girl suffers from "cold" and cold, expressing her deep concern about the fate that awaits them during the coming winter.

She says pills – for Al Jazeera Net – she miraculously escaped death, she and her baby in the neighborhood of victory in Gaza City, where surrounded by Israeli tanks for 4 days, without water or food, nor any necessities of life for her and her child.

On Tuesday morning, heavy rains fell on the Gaza Strip, accompanied by strong winds, exacerbating the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who fled their areas as a result of the brutal massacres carried out by the Israeli occupation army.

Aya Haboub and her baby girl Tia (Al Jazeera)

No aids

Fear for the baby from the rain prompted the Haboub family to hide her in one of the cars on the scene. "We ran away on foot, and the road was terrifying and very difficult, and when we arrived, the rain and the extreme cold surprised us in the tent, so my child got a cold," the baby's mother said.

The mother adds that the rain affected the little girl a lot, pointing to some pimples spread on the baby's face, which were caused by the gas sprayed by the Israeli army in Gaza, according to her explanation.

Haboub said the tent lacked sufficient bedding and blankets for the 19 people inside. In the same conversation, the baby's mother asserts that despite her suffering and her baby, she did not receive any assistance from any party to help her cope with the harsh conditions.

"This baby needs clothes, blankets, diapers and medicine, but no one helps us, we are tired of the tent, we want the war to end, and we go home," she said.

Cold, wind and rain

In the far west of the hospital courtyard, Bashir Abu Armaneh's family erected a simple tent, but rain and wind caused it to fall, and the little bedding in it drowned.

Bashir Abu Armana repairs his tent after wind and rain caused it to fall (Al Jazeera)

While Abu Armana was trying with some of his family's men, repair the tent, which fell because of the wind and rain, he told Al Jazeera Net, "In this tent live 34 people, we are trying to restore it because it shelters women and children, but we men, we sleep in the open outside."

Abu Armaneh recounts how he fled the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, because of Israeli airstrikes that destroyed his home.

Children in the open

Tent residents suffer from a lack of bedding and blankets, with Abu Armana saying adults take off their clothes and use them to warm the young. He pointed out that they did not receive any assistance from any institutions, or from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). However, he said, some "good people" gave him some help to set up the tent, in addition to some food.

"We are in a difficult situation, there is no food or water, yesterday our children ate breakfast after the afternoon," the displaced Gazan added.

Near Abu Armana's tent, 11-year-old Samah Jalo was silently watching the scene, before intervening, saying, "The rain has entered the tent. The water came down from the nylon (the roof of the tent) and the bed drowned."

She adds to Al Jazeera Net, "Tbhdlna from the rain, at night we cool a lot, and there is not enough mattress and not enough covers, I fear the arrival of winter ... We sleep, and suddenly it rains on us."

Samah Jalo talks about the suffering of her and her displaced families from the effects of cold and winter (Al Jazeera)

The rain increases the suffering of Shaker Daher, who was cooking bread for his family on firewood, in front of his tent, says to Al Jazeera Net, "We escaped from the bombing in Tal al-Zaatar (North Governorate), and here we suffer from rain, storms and lack of food and drink."

Scarcity of medicine

"We have a lot of problems, we are looking for food, flour and firewood to bake on, not to mention the problem of looking for water... Now we have the problem of rain and wind causing nylon and fabrics to fly." Due to the rain, the floor of the tent turned into "mud" and flooded the bedding, he said.

The same spokesman complained about the lack of aid received from any party, adding, "We sleep on mats, because there are no mattresses, we got 4 blankets from some good people (individuals, not institutions)." "We adults get very cold, let alone the kids?"

Daher said that all his children have contracted cold-related diseases, such as diarrhea and colic, noting that there are no medicines to treat them. Government pharmacies and hospitals are running out of medicines and medical consumables as a result of the full Israeli blockade.

Shaker Daher cooks bread in front of his tent and says rain and winter add to problems facing displaced people (Al Jazeera)

Shelling and thunder

Daher's daughter, Dima, took the initiative to talk, explaining what happened to them this morning, saying, "My father was sleeping when the rain sudden, so my father got up to fix the tent, and went to the market and bought nails and nylon."

Her sister Lina intervenes, saying, "The wind is strong, we got very cold and couldn't find a place to warm up... We get cold at night a lot, there are not enough blankets and we don't sleep at night because of the sound of shelling, thunder and the sounds of planes."

Source : Al Jazeera