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“Women and children are stuck and can’t get out!” A reporter wades through floodwater more than half a metre deep on al-Jundi al-Majhool Street in Gaza City’s al-Rimal district on November 7, 2026, after the first winter storm hit the Strip. Shops are swamped, cars are submerged, and the tents of displaced families have turned into pools of rainwater mixed with sewage. This is the fourth winter Gaza’s displaced have faced in tents. The Israeli occupation destroyed their homes along with more than 220,000 metres of sewage pipes and around 15,000 metres of stormwater drains, cutting the city’s drainage capacity by over 80 percent. A year into the ceasefire, it still restricts the entry of tents, tarps, caravans and the machinery municipalities need to pump the water away. khames.hasira anaszeno7 (IG)