Gaza Children Find Joy as Families Struggle to Stay Warm (PHOTOS)

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Kids-rain — Regardless of frigid temperatures and the harmful impression of flooding, kids in Gaza nonetheless managed to seek out pleasure as they went out to play in giant numbers. (Photograph: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Workers

Regardless of frigid temperatures and the harmful impression of flooding, kids within the Khan Yunis space, south of the Gaza Strip, nonetheless managed to seek out pleasure as they went out to play in giant numbers.

Palestine Chronicle correspondent within the besieged Strip joined Khan Yunis households who did their greatest to maintain heat in an exceptionally troublesome winter season.

However the heavy rain isn’t the one perpetrator in Khan Yunis’ present hardship. After a number of days of steady rain, the Israeli authorities contributed to the flooding of Gaza by opening the ducts within the dams positioned on the Israeli facet of the border fence final Monday.

Palestine Chronicle correspondent mentioned that Israel flooded dozens of properties and tons of of dunums of agricultural lands after opening the ducts to launch the collected rainwater east of the Khan Yunis space, within the southern Gaza Strip.

Two days in the past, the Israeli authorities additionally opened the ducts east of Deir al-Balah, which led to the flooding of dozens of properties and agricultural lands, exacerbating the struggling of Gazans, particularly in mild of the heavy rain that fell on the Gaza Strip since Saturday.

Residence to a inhabitants of over two million, the Gaza Strip has been reeling beneath a years-long Israeli blockade since 2007, badly affecting livelihood within the territory.