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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: ai; egypt; gaza; hamas; hezbollah; iran; islam; islamofascism; islamofascists; jordan; koranimals; lebanon; mullahloversonfr; mythatstoobad; ohnoanyway; randspam; syria; terrorism; unifil; unitednations; unrwa; untiednations; yemen
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To: AAABEST

It sounds like you have personal issues.


21 posted on 12/28/2025 7:23:46 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are fake AI videos of the Gazas standing outside in a blizzard.

Propaganda for idiots.


22 posted on 12/28/2025 7:23:47 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: AAABEST
Oh look, their they're all smashed-up, dead and ruined... high five.”
/spelling bee
23 posted on 12/28/2025 7:26:49 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ham-ass........just sayin’.


24 posted on 12/28/2025 7:40:27 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gawd’s judgement?


25 posted on 12/28/2025 7:54:35 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: BenLurkin

1. They’re not Arabs. See:

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dammi-israeli-the-genetic-origins-of-the-palestinians/

https://www.induslens.com/articles/dna-reveals-shared-roots-of-israelis-palestinians

2. The border is closed. No way to walk to Cairo.


26 posted on 12/28/2025 8:10:38 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AI working overtime?
If true, why aren’t the dry and warm Gazans taking these unfortunates into their homes? It’s the muzzie thing to do. Right?


27 posted on 12/28/2025 8:21:28 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: blitz128

Tell Hamas to buy them the mobile homes.


28 posted on 12/28/2025 9:30:24 AM PST by Bluebeard16
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To: hal ogen

You chose Hamas. Hamas chose war and death. You chose poorly.


29 posted on 12/28/2025 10:18:25 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: AAABEST

You can always go back to your ideological brothers at Stormfront.


30 posted on 12/28/2025 10:29:31 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Give them some rum and pigskin shoes.


31 posted on 12/28/2025 10:30:58 AM PST by Professional Engineer (What happened to this place?)
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To: piasa

Anything else false and irrelevant to proclaim? The “go back to” meme (DU, Huff Post, Russia, Stormfront etc.) is old and dumb.

Then again, your entire profile is dedicated to Mideast and African s**tholes.

i.e. America 2nd.


32 posted on 12/28/2025 10:53:33 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: philman_36

Looks like AAAbest is happy to see FR bankrupted. Odd duck.


33 posted on 12/28/2025 11:21:07 AM PST by healy61
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee where are the Muslim charities providing food, blankets and temporary housing for their own? Any aid will be coming from Western nations.


34 posted on 12/28/2025 12:48:30 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Could not have happened to more deserving people.
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.


35 posted on 12/28/2025 1:34:10 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good, freeze to death all while your aid money goes to Hamas to build tunnels


36 posted on 12/28/2025 2:16:39 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: AAABEST
You need to go back and read Acts 2:1-47 and be reminded that the Jews of Israel will be with us in the end times.
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

Acts 2:

21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

It seems that your words go against God's.
37 posted on 12/28/2025 2:49:03 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister
Irrelevant to the topic and I pay zero attention to dispensationalist heresy. Zero. I'm a Christian, not a Ziontologist.

And you can't even comprehend the very passage you yourself posted here. Peter was, clearly, speaking to the Israelites there with him at the time in the present tense. "Ye men of Israel." Just a few passages up, 2:14, he calls them "Ye men of Judea." "Ye," i.e. the plural of "thou" or "you."

Read with comprehension and learn actual Christianity before thinking yourself some internet pastor and hurling accusations. Our salvation has nothing whatsoever to do with Ashkenazi Jews in modern Isreal.

38 posted on 12/28/2025 8:10:57 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: higgmeister
Could not have happened to more deserving people.

Just noticed this after responding to the heretical ramblings you threw at me.

Christians don't twist-up scripture and revel in human suffering... in one sitting.

Fraud.

39 posted on 12/28/2025 8:27:02 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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