Floods Force Gaza to Choose Between Clean Water and Pumping Out Sewage
For Hanan Saied, 46, the storm soaked the bedding and clothing she shares with her seven children. She lives in a shelter in Al Maghazi with mud walls, cracks, and plastic sheeting covering the roof, which WIRED Middle East visited.
“The house flooded, and stones and mud fell on us,” Saied says. “The bedding was soaked, and the children’s clothes were soaked.”
Her children used buckets to move water away while her eldest son tried to repair the shelter. Saied spent the night holding her daughter, Sara, who she says has asthma, trying to keep her warm.
Gaza’s Government Media Office has said at least 70,000 tents sheltering displaced Palestinians had flooded within 12 hours.
On 8 November, the Israel account on X, run by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, posted, “Contrary to popular belief, Israel does not control the weather.” The post did not explicitly mention Gaza floods.
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