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Winter rain compounds suffering of displaced Gazans
France24 ^ | December 13, 2023

Posted on 12/13/2023 7:51:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Rafah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Cold winter rains lashed war-battered Gaza on Wednesday, compounding the suffering of Palestinians forced from their homes and now huddling in flooded tents.

Aziza al-Shabrawi tried in vain to get the rainwater out of her family's tent, pointing to her two children living in such precarious conditions.

"My son is sick because of the bitter cold and my daughter is barefoot. It's like we're beggars," said the 38-year-old. "No one cares, and no one helps."

Rafah has become a vast camp for the displaced beside the Egyptian border, with hundreds of tents erected using wood and plastic sheets.

"We spent five days outdoors. And now the rain has flooded the tents," said another displaced resident, Bilal al-Qassas.

Gusts of wind shook the fragile structures, while people tried to reinforce them with more plastic sheeting.

"Where do we migrate to? Our dignity is gone. Where do women relieve themselves? There are no bathrooms," said 41-year-old Qassas.

"We've started to long for martyrdom. We don't want to eat or drink."

They are in "desperate need of food, water, shelter, health, and protection," the UN's OCHA said in a statement.

"Without enough latrines, open-air defecation is prevalent, increasing concerns of further spread of disease, particularly during rains and related flooding."

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hamas; islam; pigs; terrorism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ohh, Boo-F**king-Hoo!


41 posted on 12/13/2023 9:08:59 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (F**K Allah Y'all!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our dignity is gone.

Yes it is.


42 posted on 12/13/2023 9:12:01 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is a little torture,rape, beheadings, and whole scale slaughter compared to getting rained on?

Who can close their eyes to such suffering?

I CAN!


43 posted on 12/13/2023 9:12:54 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

where’s the hamass??? they have millions...


44 posted on 12/13/2023 9:13:05 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s a saying - “Elections have consequences”.


45 posted on 12/13/2023 9:18:11 AM PST by fretzer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MY GAS METER HAS GONE OFF THE RAILS-—IN DOWNWARD POSITION


46 posted on 12/13/2023 9:28:36 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I figure that too much Gazan inbreeding has fried their IQs. Classic Muslim inbreeding is an uncle marries his niece. Also first cousin marriage, which I read is not that harmful. But harms the offspring when done for generations upon generations..


47 posted on 12/13/2023 9:29:12 AM PST by dennisw (Be positive. Every day is another day.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MAYBE they should have started this war on APRIL 7 instead of OCT 7.

Winter will have an influence.


48 posted on 12/13/2023 9:29:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some day a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets...


49 posted on 12/13/2023 9:29:37 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I seem to remember this bunch dancing in the streets, ululating and passing out little candies on 9/11/2001. Pardon me while I don’t give a big rat’s ass.


50 posted on 12/13/2023 9:30:39 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“”””Aziza al-Shabrawi tried in vain to get the rainwater out of her family’s tent, pointing to her two children living in such precarious conditions.”””


Where is your husband, Aziza? Is he still busy building tunnels in Gaza? Or is he one of the Hamas dudes who killed a bunch of Israelis?


51 posted on 12/13/2023 9:31:27 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Secret Agent Man

EGYPT has enough trouble with The Muslim Brotherhood-—the grandfather of HAMAS.


52 posted on 12/13/2023 9:32:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s a war! Did French papers report on the “suffering” of German civilians from RAIN after Allied carpet bombing of Berlin in 1944?


53 posted on 12/13/2023 9:57:09 AM PST by montag813
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well then.

Don’t make trouble.


54 posted on 12/13/2023 10:09:30 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: V_TWIN

So far the only destination anyone admits would take them is their first choice, Allah’s Paradise. Oddly no one wants to help Israel move them there.


55 posted on 12/13/2023 11:26:09 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh boo hoo
No sympathy for these scum


56 posted on 12/13/2023 11:58:37 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It’s like we’re beggars,”

You ARE beggars. The entire Gaza population has lived on international welfar for generations.


57 posted on 12/13/2023 12:36:11 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will the rain make the tunnels fill up any faster?


58 posted on 12/13/2023 3:50:30 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Highs in the 70’s, lows in the 50’s.

What are they complaining about? A little rain?


59 posted on 12/13/2023 5:28:12 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous w)
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