# ‘Helpless’: The families facing winter in tents on the beach in Gaza

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/helpless-the-families-facing-winter-in-tents-on-the-beach-in-gaza/
- Published: 2026-11-05T10:25:28+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T11:56:05+00:00
- Original publisher: Al Jazeera (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/11/5/helpless-the-families-facing-winter-in-tents-on-the-beach-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss
- Topics: Culture, Food, Middle East, World

## Key points

- Displaced families face winter in unsafe tents on Gaza’s coast.
- Last winter’s flooding left children cold, wet and seriously ill.
- A pot-and-soil barrier offers only temporary protection.

## Summary

Displaced families on Gaza’s southern coast are bracing for another winter in fragile tents that offer little protection from rain, wind and rising seawater. With safer accommodation unaffordable or unavailable, residents fear a repeat of last winter’s flooding, which left children exposed to cold and damp and caused serious illness.

Anas al-Shami, 33, lives with his family of six near al-Qarara port after being displaced from Bani Suheila; Ibrahim Abu Tair, 47, shares a cramped tent there with his seven children. Mayasem Association is making temporary barriers from damaged cooking pots filled with soil, stacking three to reach about 150 centimetres and help keep waves away from shelters. The initiative offers limited protection, while Gaza’s Winter Emergency Committee has warned that the humanitarian crisis is worsening and safe shelter remains scarce.

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