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.
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80 degrees and partly cloudy in Mogadishu. Send them there, they will feel right at home.
And when they do blame others it’s up to the rest of us to stand up. At some point the last word has to come from somebody and a truce puts it off for another day.
I never saw it- I only heard about it. Someone somewhere must have saved it.
Let’s send some of them to islands where Joe Biden’s uncle was killed by cannibals.
“waded through the freezing puddles”
LOL
Orphan Annie sang it best: Tomorrow, tomorrow, there’s always tomorrow. Well, they will all dry up eventually.
It is amazing how well it has been scrubbed. I actually saw it on one of the network news broadcasts on 9/12 or 13 never to be seen again.
You all heathens keep supporting Hamas,
To hell with ya.
Freeze, starve, rot, whatever, we don give a poop.
My field of F*@ks is barren, so I do not have one to give.
They are a political death cult wrapped in a fake religion so they can just vaporize for all I care.
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