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'Shivering from cold and fear': winter rains batter displaced Gazans
France24 ^ | December 28, 2025

Posted on 12/28/2025 5:45:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Khan Yunis (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – It only took a matter of minutes after the heavy overnight rain first began to fall for Jamil al-Sharafi's tent in southern Gaza to flood, drenching his food and leaving his blankets sopping wet.

The winter rains have made an already precarious life worse for people like Sharafi, who is among the hundreds of thousands in the Palestinian territory displaced by the war, many of whom now survive on aid provided by humanitarian organisations.

"My children are shivering from cold and fear... The tent was completely flooded within minutes," Sharafi, 47, said on Sunday.

"We lost our blankets, and all the food is soaked," added the father of six, who lives in a makeshift shelter with his children in the coastal area of Al-Mawasi.

A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been in place since October 10, following two years of devastating fighting.

But despite the truce, Gazans still face a severe humanitarian crisis, and most of those displaced by the war have been left with little or nothing.

Families are crowded into camps of tents hastily erected from tarpaulins, which are often surrounded by mud and standing water when it rains.

"As an elderly woman, I cannot live in tents. Living in tents means we die from the cold in the rain and from the heat in the summer," said Umm Rami Bulbul.

"We don't want reconstruction right now, just provide us and our children with mobile homes."

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1 posted on 12/28/2025 5:45:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can I get a free mobile home?


2 posted on 12/28/2025 5:48:15 AM PST by blitz128
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Another AI generated pity party for the gaza BS. Notice, they screwed this one up and mentioned that the guy's food got wet.
3 posted on 12/28/2025 5:50:31 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gaza before the war... And after... The only noticeable difference... Less Squatters.


4 posted on 12/28/2025 5:53:22 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You guys were the ones who wanted to be governed by Hamas so don’t cry to me about the situation you created yourselves.


5 posted on 12/28/2025 5:53:25 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FAFO


6 posted on 12/28/2025 5:53:48 AM PST by JayGalt (For America!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“My children are shivering from cold and fear... The tent was completely flooded within minutes,”

Over 1,000 Israeli children are shivering six feet under thanks to you.


7 posted on 12/28/2025 5:53:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Steve Drenker)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

65 degrees and sunny there today, low tonight 57.


8 posted on 12/28/2025 5:54:23 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is the result of choosing to be violent, unpredictable, dishonest, murderous, uncivilized people. That is not a good choice for you.

Enjoy the results of YOUR choices.

Tough luck.


9 posted on 12/28/2025 6:00:45 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

well, perhaps they’d be better off to abandon their blood-thirsty terrorism and evil Occupation of Israeli territory... and either return to their countries of origin or else resettle elsewhere (Just NOT in USA!!!!!!! We have too much Islamicist terrorism here already!!)

Actually, for the most humanitarian approach ... President Trump’s plan to buy an Indonesian island for them (Indonesia consists of over 17,000 islands, not all populated)... is really still the very best plan that anyone’s offered. It has the advantage of ending their savage terrorist attacks -— since an island can be easily, effectively, and economically monitored to make darned SURE that they can never mount an invasion or raid or attack on any civilized human beings anywhere on earth, ever again.


10 posted on 12/28/2025 6:09:15 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BS

Hamas AI Propaganda.


11 posted on 12/28/2025 6:11:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Move to Tehran, I hear that it’s much drier there these days!


12 posted on 12/28/2025 6:11:29 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good. I hope it’s colder than Arafat in Gaza.


13 posted on 12/28/2025 6:14:12 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why aren’t these Arabs in Cairo — they could have walked there by now.


14 posted on 12/28/2025 6:24:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Shawa told AFP, pointing to Israeli restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid into the territory.

Totally false. At most entry points into Gaza, aid is allowed into the country whereupon Hamas confiscates the trucks, hands the aid out to its soldiers, and they sells any that might be left to the people after adding a 16% "peace tax" onto the items being sold. As long as the people of Gaza continue to support Hamas, they should not expect anything different in their lives. Their choice...

15 posted on 12/28/2025 6:30:47 AM PST by econjack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another AI fake news story. The demand of MOBILE HOMES is a dead giveaway..


16 posted on 12/28/2025 6:32:01 AM PST by Retgearjammer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THEY CAN STILL KEEP PRODUCING CHILDREN, RIGHT?


17 posted on 12/28/2025 6:32:39 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: philman_36

Those poor diddum’s. While their elected representatives (terrorists) were slaughtering innocent Jews, raping them, mutilating them, burning them alive, murdering children in front of parents’ eyes before being killed themselves, butchering the dead, raping the dead, brutalizing and disfiguring women, men, their genitals, their faces with PURE JOY on their faces, these PALEOstinians were dancing with joy and joining in on the pillaging and rape. Then, they were all smiles, happy that their leaders were killing Jews for joy.

Now the poor diddum’s are suffering due to one factor only - supporting HAMAS/PLO/ISLAMIC JIHAD and a myriad of other murderers. No pity for these scum, not even their children who will grow up with the same ideology: KILL OR BE KILLED


18 posted on 12/28/2025 6:41:54 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perhaps Gaza’s 2 billion Muslim brothers can invite them into their homes? Or do they only provide weapons?


19 posted on 12/28/2025 6:43:07 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another FR thread where souless, Israel first geezers crawl out of their stinkholes and celebrate their common depravity. “Oh look, their all smashed-up, dead and ruined... high five.”

The murder-clowns who say the quiet part out loud and *seriously, opt for killing every single Gazan man woman and child are usually fan faves. Ethnic cleansers are a close 2nd, where, via the Blackrock/Kushner plan, all Gazans are forcibly evicted from their ancestral home and - lol - seaside condos are built. Of course, America gets the bill - $60 billion just to start.

You only see this in a few remaining boomer strongholds, like FR, which is going bankrupt... morally and financially. America 2nd Fox News is another losing influence - daily, by the assload.

Most everywhere else - including right-leaning outlets like Breitbart - Americans, right/left/center are completely fed up with funding and taking sides, particularly Israel’s side, in ancient Mideast tribal shithole wars.

Enjoy the gloating and celebrations - your days are numbered.


20 posted on 12/28/2025 6:47:37 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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