Ismail Al-Thawabet, director of the government media office in Gaza, revealed that the air depression that hit the Strip yesterday, Tuesday, caused widespread damage to about 22,000 tents for the displaced, leaving more than 288,000 displaced people without protection in the face of cold and rain.
Al-Thawabet explained, in press statements today, that the estimates of the losses caused by the depression amounted to about 3.5 million dollars, after the rain water flooded large areas of the camps and turned them into areas unfit for temporary housing, noting that the primitive sewage networks were exposed.
Significant damage, while the corridors were sunk inside the schools used as displacement centers and the temporary water networks were disrupted, which made it more difficult for humanitarian conditions.
He pointed out that the food sector has incurred heavy losses as a result of damage to food quantities and loss of aid that was intended for distribution, stressing that more than 10 mobile medical points were also disrupted, in addition to the loss of necessary medicines and supplies due to the difficulty of movement in the flooded areas.
And the situation worsened after the weather instability that the sector witnessed from the day before yesterday evening, until yesterday evening, Tuesday, as the continuous rain exacerbated the crisis of the displaced and the residents of the tents.
