# ‘Her hands are as cold as ice’: Gaza families struggle to keep warm

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/her-hands-are-as-cold-as-ice-gaza-families-struggle-to-keep-warm/
- Published: 2026-11-12T17:18:13+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T21:49:52+00:00
- Original publisher: Al Jazeera (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/11/12/her-hands-are-as-cold-as-ice-gaza-families-struggle-to-keep-warm?traffic_source=rss
- Topics: Middle East, World

## Key points

- Displaced families lack warm clothes, blankets and shelter.
- 650,000 children need winter aid in Gaza.
- Aid supplies and funding remain far below needs.

## Summary

Displaced families in Gaza are struggling to protect children and relatives with disabilities from falling temperatures, rain and flooding in makeshift shelters. Their accounts show how a lack of warm clothing, bedding and heating is adding to the hardships of displacement and putting children at risk of cold-related illness and death.

UN figures cited in the article say 94 per cent of Gaza’s population urgently needs shelter assistance, while 65 per cent of households live in tents or makeshift shelters. About 650,000 children need winter aid; by September, aid agencies had secured winter clothes for only 9,000 households and bedding for 50,000. UNICEF is seeking $97.5 million for its 2026–27 winter response, after at least 11 children died of hypothermia last winter, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

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