For the fourth year in a row, the same scenes were repeated in the Gaza Strip: thousands of worn-out tents did not protect their residents from the rain, while the strong winds uprooted tent pegs that the owners spent weeks installing and strengthening with the available awnings and nylon covers in preparation for the expected fall. Thus, the camps that were established randomly and without any infrastructure to manage excess rain showers became lakes in which clothes, supplies and mattresses were floating. "No trick was useful in preventing the disaster," Abu Muhammad al-Shamali, a displaced woman in al-Mina camp, west of Gaza City, told al-Akhbar. He added: "After only ten minutes of heavy rain, everyone drowned." Water collected above the upper shade, and when its weight was heavy, the tent collapsed on top of us, and a flood of water previously drowned the mattress, mats and covers", noting, "(We) spent weeks collecting empty flour bags, filling them with sand and surrounding the tents, but to no avail. We drowned, the flour spoiled and the rainwater mixed in the sewers. "We are back to zero, and we are still at the beginning of winter."

For the fourth year in a row, the same scenes were repeated in the Gaza Strip: thousands of worn-out tents did not protect their residents from the rain, while the strong winds uprooted tent pegs that the owners spent weeks installing and strengthening with the available awnings and nylon covers in preparation for the expected fall. Thus, the camps that were established randomly and without any infrastructure to manage excess rain showers became lakes in which clothes, supplies and mattresses were floating. "No trick was useful in preventing the disaster," Abu Muhammad al-Shamali, a displaced woman in al-Mina camp, west of Gaza City, told al-Akhbar. He added: "After only ten minutes of heavy rain, everyone drowned." Water collected above the upper shade, and when its weight was heavy, the tent collapsed on top of us, and a flood of water previously drowned the mattress, mats and covers", noting, "(We) spent weeks collecting empty flour bags, filling them with sand and surrounding the tents, but to no avail. We drowned, the flour spoiled and the rainwater mixed in the sewers. "We are back to zero, and we are still at the beginning of winter."