Lack of shelter, food increases Gazans’ misery as winter sets in

A Palestinian child runs to shelter from the rain at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Dec. 20, 2024. A Palestinian carries a wounded child at the site of an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on Dec. 20, 2024. Palestinian girls struggle to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Dec. 20, 2024.

As temperatures drop and seasonal rains flood fragile settlements in the Gaza Strip this winter, aid agencies fear many Palestinians will die while others become critically ill and some permanently disabled.