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Winter is hitting Gaza and many Palestinians have little protection from the cold
MSN - AP ^ | 12 22 | WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED

Posted on 12/22/2024 8:19:20 AM PST by dennisw

The U.N. Agency UNRWA, has been planning all year for winter in Gaza, but the aid it was able to get into the territory is “not even close to being enough for people,” said Louise Wateridge, an agency spokeswoman.

UNRWA distributed 6,000 tents over the past four weeks in northern Gaza but was unable to get them to other parts of the Strip, including areas where there has been fighting. About 22,000 tents have been stuck in Jordan and 600,000 blankets and 33 truckloads of mattresses have been sitting in Egypt since the summer because the agency doesn’t have Israeli approval or a safe route to bring them into Gaza and because it had to prioritize desperately needed food aid, Wateridge said.

Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 14-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.

There is a shortage of blankets and warm clothing, little wood for fires, and the tents and patched-together tarps families are living in have grown increasingly threadbare after months of heavy use, according to aid workers and residents.

Shadia Aiyada, who was displaced from the southern city of Rafah to the coastal area of Muwasi, has only one blanket and a hot water bottle to keep her eight children from shivering inside their fragile tent.

“We get scared every time we learn from the weather forecast that rainy and windy days are coming up because our tents are lifted with the wind. We fear that strong windy weather would knock out our tents one day while we’re inside,” she said.

With nighttime temperatures that can drop into the 40s (the mid-to-high single digits Celsius), Aiyada fears that her kids will get sick without warm clothing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: unrwa; winter
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1 posted on 12/22/2024 8:19:20 AM PST by dennisw
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They could always surrender


2 posted on 12/22/2024 8:20:57 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: dennisw

Hey, what about the people in North Carolina that FEMA is ignoring? I don’t give a rip about the so called Palestinians.


3 posted on 12/22/2024 8:22:10 AM PST by caver
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To: dennisw

I wonder how the remaining hostages are doing.


4 posted on 12/22/2024 8:22:32 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: dennisw
...to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain...

Miles of tunnels, and nowhere to go.

5 posted on 12/22/2024 8:22:39 AM PST by GingisK
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To: dennisw

Then surrender…. and you can have a blanket and warm chow.


6 posted on 12/22/2024 8:22:42 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: escapefromboston

They could always go home to where they came from.


7 posted on 12/22/2024 8:23:37 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: dennisw

> because the agency doesn’t have Israeli approval … <

Funny how blame Israel is first on that list.


8 posted on 12/22/2024 8:23:39 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: dennisw

Why aren’t these poor Arabs already safe and warm in Cairo? They could have walked there by now.


9 posted on 12/22/2024 8:25:18 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: dennisw

They should have thought of that before they elected Hamas.


10 posted on 12/22/2024 8:27:30 AM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: dennisw

The UNRwA funds were expended on the bank of Hamas computer servers and electrical distribution found in the tunnels under the UNRWA office complex


11 posted on 12/22/2024 8:29:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: escapefromboston

Or ask for help from their Iranian friends


12 posted on 12/22/2024 8:30:29 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: dennisw

There must be some leftover c-rations that are warehoused from the Vietnam War. That the USA can send them,
Meanwhile, UNRWA is getting a friend and family discount for 2 million Chinese made tents. 4 million pairs of Chinese long Johns, too. Gaza refugees started out in tents 70+ years ago. Now they are back in tents.

20lb propane tanks for cooking are in high demand. They can heat tents too. Not much firewood in Gaza.


13 posted on 12/22/2024 8:34:30 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

well perhaps they may wish to return home to Egypt and Arabia


14 posted on 12/22/2024 8:35:26 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CodeToad

“They could always go home to where they came from.”

Yep, completely surrounded by Arab countries - except Arab countries won’t take the Palestinians due to their behavior.


15 posted on 12/22/2024 8:36:02 AM PST by BobL
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To: faithhopecharity
well perhaps they may wish to return home to Egypt and Arabia

Sisi will never take them in Egypt because they'll just join the Muslim Brotherhood and then revolt against the Egyptian Government.

16 posted on 12/22/2024 8:37:55 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: dennisw

Lots of nice warm tunnels around.


17 posted on 12/22/2024 8:39:53 AM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: dennisw

Awwww, such a shame. THEY voted for Hamas, THEY kept some Israelis captive for Hamas, THEY raised little stone throwers and murderers. Now the chickens come home to roost, with no resources for the winter. Too darn bad. You made some very bad choices. Go back to Lebanon and Egypt, from whence you came.


18 posted on 12/22/2024 8:41:24 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: dennisw

In Tel Aviv, there will be lows of about 52 degrees most of this week.

There will be lows in the mid-40s for many days afterwards.

The temperatures will be quite similar to those of San Francisco.

I’ve read about people sleeping in cars in Cleveland, Ohio.


19 posted on 12/22/2024 8:43:14 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: dennisw

Elections have consequences.


20 posted on 12/22/2024 8:47:50 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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