Gaza residents despair after torrential rains flood tens of thousands of makeshift shelters

Palestinians standing in front of their flooded tent in Gaza, November 7, 2026. OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP "Enough! All of you, look at us! We can't take it anymore! We can't take it anymore!" This cry came from a widow filmed in Gaza by a local journalist, among the many Palestinian reporters who have shared harrowing footage of the torrential rains that have hit the territory. Desperate, the woman tried to sweep the water from her tent and the few belongings she had left.

She eventually collapsed, her face buried in her hands, her ankles and the hem of her dress soaking in the water. She could do nothing: The water had swallowed everything. In another video, a crying child, filmed amid the downpour, pointed to a tent flattened by the storm. The family who lived there had been forced to flee, the boy explained. "Nothing holds these tents up!" he shouted, gesturing at flimsy pieces of wood on the ground. "No one cares about us.

People just film us and then leave," he said, his eyes brimming with tears. Elsewhere, families tried to save soaked mattresses, blankets and clothes, standing in knee-deep water. Read more Subscribers only 'I am as afraid of the rain as I was of the war': How severe weather compounds the suffering of displaced Gazans On the evening of Sunday, November 8, rescue workers were unable to revive three children and two women who were killed when a sand embankment collapsed on a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.

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