The children walk around barefoot or wear broken sandals. Hundreds of dirty tents in various colors and shapes are lined up tightly. One more broken than the other.
Reda Abu Zarada has fled Jabalia, a neighborhood in northern Gaza, three miles from the camp.
– We have no proper clothes, no socks, nothing. We never expected to live such a life. My house was so good in the north, she says in tears to the news agency AP.
She shows the holes in the roofs of torn tents, which are now her home.
– Look, it doesn’t protect us, neither in winter nor in summer. We feel the moisture from the ground, the cold kills us. Do you know what it feels like to freeze?
The tents are shot down if they catch fire
The Shabet family also lives in the camp. They do not leave their tent in the refugee camp after the sun has set. At night, the cold in Gaza is so severe that they are forced to stay in their tent – made of tarpaulins and pieces of cloth.
– We suffer from the cold, especially at night. I struggle and my 7-year-old daughter cries at night because of it, says Omar Shabet.
Even if Omar wanted to light a fire to keep warm, he dares not. He tells the AP that tents were shot down by occupation planes after fires lit up the camps at night.
– We rejoice when morning comes because we suffer from extreme cold at night.
At least 28 dead near the camp – several children
Just one mile from the refugee camp in Khan Younis, thirteen people were killed in an airstrike on a house in Deir el-Balah on Saturday.
In another attack, eight people were killed, including four children, against a school in Gaza, where people on the run sought refuge, the civil defense says. In the school, according to information, there was one of Hamas’ command centers where attacks against the Israeli military and against Israel are said to have been planned and carried out.
As the attacks continue, Hamas has agreed to release 11 young hostages in the first part of a possible ceasefire deal, according to Egyptian Al-Ghad television, reports Haaretz.