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00:00At the Mawassi encampment along Gaza's coast, displaced families desperately try to salvage
00:07what they can. Heavy rain has brought water up to their ankles, soaking through mattresses
00:14and any remaining belongings.
00:18We woke up in the morning to find the tents with rain pouring on us and water from the
00:22streets coming in. We were all drowning in it, the children too, and the entire kitchen
00:27where we prepare food was filled with water.
00:31Nearly a year since the war began, many despair at the thought of again spending the winter
00:36months in tents and with little aid.
00:40We don't have money to buy tents. They cost $100. We hardly eat and feed our children.
00:46We do not have clothes.
00:49With more rain, the UN's Palestinian Refugee Agency says people, especially children, are
00:55likely to fall ill. The weather does nothing to ease already dire sanitary conditions which
01:01have promoted the spread of disease.
01:04My daughter is six months old. She got sick. Where can I take her? To the hospital? We
01:09used antibiotics once and then we were told we needed more. Where do we get them from?
01:14There is no medicine in this country. There is war, bombardment, destruction and now cold
01:19weather and rain.
01:22The Mawassi area is a designated safe zone by the Israeli army, though it has been the
01:27target of deadly airstrikes. The UN recently reported there were between 30 and 34,000
01:33residents per square kilometre in the camp. That's compared to just 1,200 before the war.