Gaza’s Displaced Face Deadly Harsh Weather: Baby Dies in Flooded Tent amid Strikes
“It kept raining, and the cold was getting worse. Suddenly, I found my little baby motionless, dead,” the infant’s mother told Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, an Israeli attack on northern Gaza has killed at least one woman and wounded others, emergency workers said.
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says thousands of Palestinians have been left to freeze and starve in Gaza as Storm Byron hits and the unstoppable “nightmare” continues.
The Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 70,369 Palestinians and wounded 171,069 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
In related news, Jonathan Crickx, chief of communication at UNICEF Palestine, says he was at a displacement camp in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza this morning and saw many children barefoot, all their clothes and mattresses soaked.
“The water is getting everywhere because those tents are mostly makeshift and are not protecting children,” he told Al Jazeera.
He said many children are sick, and after two years of relentless war, they are suffering without reprieve.
UNICEF and other agencies have seen a “slight improvement” in the amount of aid in Gaza in recent weeks, but the situation remains dire, according to Crickx.
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He said UNICEF managed to distribute just 7,500 tents in Gaza, while hundreds of thousands of families remain in need. He pointed out that up to 90 percent of infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed, adding that the UN estimates 1.5 million people are at risk.
“The scale of the disaster is huge. What we’re scared of is that there is very poor hygiene, and all that pouring rain could enable the appearance of waterborne diseases like acute diarrhoea,” he said, adding that many of the more than one million children in need have been repeatedly displaced with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
Source: Al Jazeera
