- Title: UN fears for displaced Gazans after rains flood hundreds of tents and shelters
- Date: 14th November 2025
- Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (NOVEMBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS) MAKESHIFT TENTS VARIOUS OF MAKESHIFT TENTS SURROUNDED BY POOLED WATER AFTER RAINFALL / DISPLACED PALESTINIANS GATHERED PALESTINIAN CHILDREN ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR WATER NEXT TO MAKESHIFT TENTS DISPLACED PALESTINIANS AND MAKESHIFT TENTS SURROUNDED BY WATER AFTER RAINFALL DISPLACED PALESTINIAN FROM JABALIA, ABU AHMED AL-MTAWAQ STAND
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- Keywords: Gaza United Nations flooding tents
- Location: UNITED NATIONS / GAZA CITY, GAZA
- City: UNITED NATIONS / GAZA CITY, GAZA
- Country: US
- Topics: North America,Government/Politics,United Nations
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- Story Text:Heavy rainwater seeped into makeshift tents sheltering displaced families in Gaza City on Friday (November 14), worsening their living conditions and leaving them with soaked beddings and belongings.
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that "hundreds of tents and makeshift shelters were flooded due to today's intense rains that had a harsh impact on people across Gaza" and warned that "we fear that thousands of displaced families are now left fully exposed to the harsh weather elements, increased by health and protection concerns."
He said partners had been working "to provide shelter support" and "have deployed rapid response teams today and, for many weeks, have been doing everything possible to lessen the impact of anticipated rains on the people of Gaza."
"Look at the water, how we're drowning from the rain," said Abu Ahmed al‑Mtawaq, displaced from Jabalia. "This was a weather depression (rainfall) that lasted a half‑hour only, so imagine if it lasted four hours - what's going to happen to the people in the camp?"
Nearby, Mariam al‑Najjar, also displaced from Jabalia, described waking up in the early hours to find water pouring into her family's shelter.
"Our bedding is soaked, our clothes are soaked. Everything we have is wet. From 2 (a.m.) until morning, we've been standing on our feet so that we don't drown."
Huge swathes of Gaza have been reduced to a wasteland by Israeli bombardment over two years that killed some 68,000 people, according to Gaza health authorities.
A new ceasefire took effect on October 10.
The U.S. brokered ceasefire has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza triggered by the October 7, 2023 attack in which Hamas-led gunmen killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
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