Скачать или смотреть Palestinians in Gaza try to winterproof shelters of rubble and blankets unsure how they will survive

(14 Nov 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 14 November 2025
1. Various of displaced man and his wife covering their shelter with nylon to protect themselves from the rain
2. Various of children standing barefoot outside tents
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel Rahim Halawa, father of seven children:
“I covered it with nylon to protect us from the rain. Tonight, all the mattresses and blankets got drenched, and I bought nylon to protect us from the rain and alleviate our suffering.”
4. Various of shelter
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel Rahim Halawa, father of seven children:
“We don't know how we'll survive if winter comes. Tonight, there was a little rain and we're already soaked. What will happen if heavy rain comes? We don't know how we'll manage. Please stand with us.”
6. Various of child looking through clothes hanging to dry
7. Various of mother and her children sitting outside tent
8. Various of displaced children playing in rainwater collected on ground
9. Various of people fixing nylon on shelters
10. Rainwater on ground near shelters
11. Various of shelters next to rubble
12. Various of people covering shelters with nylon
13. Various of shelter using structure of destroyed house
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saed Salhi, displaced from Jabaliya:
“It's on the verge of collapse, yes, it's on the verge of collapse. Engineering committees came and said it's forbidden to live in this house, but we have no alternative. Where else can we go? Especially in the winter and the bitter cold. As you can see, winter is only just beginning, and water has flooded our home. There's no sewage system.”
15. Various of shelter using structure of destroyed house, clothes hanging out to dry
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saed Salhi, displaced from Jabaliya:
“We hope our situation will improve like everyone else's, like all people around the world, and that we will live a dignified life. We hope that our dignity and pride will be back, God willing, and that these houses will be rebuilt.”
17. Wide of clothes hanging outside destroyed building to dry
18. Mid of children sitting below washing hanging outside to dry
19. Close of clothes hung out to dry
20. Wide of shelter built amongst rubble
21. Various of people fixing shelters
22. Various of shelters amongst destruction
STORYLINE:
As winter settles over Gaza and the rains begin, displaced families are struggling to keep their makeshift shelters from collapsing.

As cloudy skies threatened another downpour in Gaza city, Abdel Rahim Halawa, a father of seven children, worked to fasten a tarp over his shelter, made of some pieces of wood, blankets and worn sheets of plastic.

Lines of clothes were hung in the wind near structures surrounded by mounds of debris.

"Tonight, all the mattresses and blankets got drenched, and I bought nylon to protect us from the rain and alleviate our suffering," Halawa said.

"We don't know how we'll survive if winter comes."

Some have taken shelter in what remains of destroyed buildings.

One family has been living inside a section of concrete held up by a single crooked column, its open side covered with a piece of tarp.

"It's on the verge of collapse. Engineering committees came and said it's forbidden to live in this house, but we have no alternative. Where else can we go? Especially in the winter and the bitter cold," Saed Salhi said.

Salhi is living in the structure with four members of his family, who are displaced from Jabaliya in northern Gaza.





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