The beaches of Gaza are no longer just a day trip. Tens of thousands of people are now forced to flee their homes and live on the coastline during the war.
In recent days they have suffered a new kind of attack. That means hitting your shabby temporary home from the winter seas.
“There was nothing left in the tent. They took everything except the mattress, bedding and bread. The sea took it away,” says Mohammed al-Halabi in Deir al-Balah.
“We rescued a two-month-old child who had been dragged into the sea.”
The United Nations says most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are now refugees, and nine out of 10 people living in shelters are living in tents.
As temperatures drop, many people are falling ill. Rainwater and sewage overflowed.
“Our children’s feet, heads, everything was frozen,” Shaima Issa told the BBC in Khan Younis. “My daughter has a fever because of a cold. We basically live on a street surrounded by scraps of cloth. “Everyone here is sick and coughing.”
“When it rains, we get soaked,” cried her neighbor Salwa Abu Nimer. “It is raining heavily and we have no waterproof cover. “Water seeped into the tent and my clothes got wet.”
“There is no flour, no food, no drink, no shelter.” She continued. “What kind of life am I living? I go to the ends of the earth just to feed my children.”
