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Freezing rain floods Gaza camps and leaves displaced Palestinians in dire conditions
The Associated Press ^ | December 28, 2025 | BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SALLY ABOU ALJOUD

Posted on 12/28/2025 6:34:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by the two-year war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use.

Muddy water soaked blankets and mattresses in tents in a camp in Khan Younis and fragile shelters were propped up with old pieces of wood. Children wearing flip-flops and light clothing ill-suited for winter waded through the freezing puddles, which turned dirt roads into rivers. Some people used shovels to try to push the water out of their tents.

“We drowned last night,” said Majdoleen Tarabein, a woman displaced from Rafah in southern Gaza. “Puddles formed, and there was a bad smell. The tent flew away. We don’t know what to do or where to go.”

She showed blankets and the remaining contents of the tent, completely soaked and covered in mud, as she and family members tried to wring them dry by hand.

“When we woke up in the morning, we found that the water had entered the tent,” said Eman Abu Riziq, also displaced in Khan Younis, as she pointed to a puddle just outside. “These are the mattresses — they are all completely soaked. My daughters’ belongings were soaked. The water is entering from here and there,” she said, gesturing toward the ceiling and the corners of the tent. Her family is still reeling from her husband’s recent death, and the constant struggle to stay dry in the winter rains.

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; islam; narrative; ohnoanyway
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To: BenLurkin

Because of the Big, Beautiful Wall between Egypt and Gaza.


21 posted on 12/28/2025 7:37:48 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Nobody to blame but themselves.
True, but that doesn't stop them from trying to blame others and the gullible go right along with it.
22 posted on 12/28/2025 7:39:31 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: yuleeyahoo; BenLurkin
Not just Cairo. Nobody wants them.
23 posted on 12/28/2025 7:40:59 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: BenLurkin

‘Cause Egyptians are not dumb enough to welcome rabid dogs into their back yard.

Oh, and the rains? Uhh, Gawd’s judgement? Egypt’s Jews had to wander the desert for 40 years. Mebbe that is what is going on here.


24 posted on 12/28/2025 7:51:11 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: philman_36

It’s the blame America first crowd.

**Not just Cairo. Nobody wants them.**
It’s an Arab problem just like Ukraine is a European problem.
Indonesia could take them in. Thousands of islands to spread them out. Make them wait 2000 years to figure it out just like the Israelis.


25 posted on 12/28/2025 7:52:31 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How can Gazans be displaced in Gaza? The freezing rain isn’t permanent. Their lazy butts need to do what other human beings have been doing for thousands of generations. Find a place to hunker down until the bad weather is over “in fifteen minutes.”


26 posted on 12/28/2025 7:54:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (MAGAism is the greatest CURE for DemonRAT "Demockrazy". )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To use a ‘60s expression, my heart bleeds purple peanut butter for those animals.


27 posted on 12/28/2025 7:55:37 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Freezing rain” is no reason to drag them to America to live off the backs of hardworking AMERICAN FAMILIES. Tell them to hunker down with their Isis and Hamass pals until it stops raining. Geez. Life isn’t rocket science. Just do what everyone has been doing for millions of years. You can’t spend your life with your hands out all the time.


28 posted on 12/28/2025 8:03:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (MAGAism is the greatest CURE for DemonRAT "Demockrazy". )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

While their Egyptian brothers keep them prisoner bottled up in Gaza with a huge multi- layered barricade including a shoot- to- kill zone in the middle


29 posted on 12/28/2025 8:03:40 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t start wars you can’t afford to lose.


30 posted on 12/28/2025 8:09:33 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: Blennos

LOL! I just saw a video of it snowing there and another showing a hurricane blowing through!


31 posted on 12/28/2025 8:13:33 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m old enough to remember them dancing in the streets after 9-11.


32 posted on 12/28/2025 8:21:45 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t care.

Can’t make me care.

L


33 posted on 12/28/2025 8:22:26 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This can’t be real.... All my life knowledge Karen’s insisted there could be no snow on the manger!!!!


34 posted on 12/28/2025 8:30:08 AM PST by dangus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

With any luck it will result in skipping a generation of Raping, Murdering Savages.


35 posted on 12/28/2025 8:33:47 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I saw that one — clearly AI. Pallywood. It’s funny that there would be snow when the temperatures are in the 60s.

What irks me is not that the terrorist group Hamas would produce such blatant propaganda, but that the big MSM outlets would repeat it. And so many simple-minded people fall for it.


36 posted on 12/28/2025 8:44:41 AM PST by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Israel’s Gaza Urban Renewal Program (GURP) is going great!


37 posted on 12/28/2025 8:45:17 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Look at the monthly weather recap in Khan Younis, Gaza.

https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/5bf6a32f3b05e8cce6bed2f03fc81e5cf3da1f5e605b5e685b21acd76b40e72f

It’s been in the high 60s to mid 70s for the entire month of December. No sign of hurricane winds or freezing temperatures.

They are lying. Big surprise.


38 posted on 12/28/2025 8:50:10 AM PST by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Karma is a beyotch…my give-a-fu*k meter is out of order for these muzzie scum.


39 posted on 12/28/2025 8:50:14 AM PST by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Palestinians: Too stupid to figure out tents, I guess.


40 posted on 12/28/2025 8:55:00 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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