The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip stated on Monday that 288,000 Palestinian families are living through a “true tragedy” after tens of thousands of tents sheltering them were flooded by rainwater in recent days. The Strip needs 300,000 tents and mobile homes to provide basic housing.
This statement from the Government Media Office highlighted the disaster in Gaza following the three-day storm that struck the Strip, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis left by the two-year-long war of genocide.
The office added: “Today, we are facing a humanitarian catastrophe, the most serious since the beginning of the war of genocide and the aggression launched by the occupation… in the absence of the most basic necessities of life.”
He explained that Israel is deliberately exacerbating this catastrophe by depriving civilians of protection and basic necessities for shelter and survival, which it prevents from entering the Gaza Strip.
He stated that “288,000 Palestinian families are living through a dire tragedy under harsh weather conditions and lacking even the most basic necessities of life,” with “tens of thousands of tents sheltering thousands of displaced people” flooded with the first storm.
He pointed out that this situation “embodies the scale of the suffering and the failure of the international community to provide shelter,” at a time when the Gaza Strip needs approximately “300,000 tents and mobile homes to secure the bare minimum for humane housing.”
