Jonathan Crix

Last night was really horrendous for the families.

I mean, the heavy rains were so intense that we could see 10, 15 centimetres of water and the winds were so strong.

And when I drove this morning, I could see many, many people were trying with buckets to remove some of the water.

Most of the people who are living in tents in Gaza, they have been displaced multiple times.

And when you're displaced during those two years of war, you're just moving with what you have on your back.

You don't have the time to pack a lot of clothes.

So most of the children that I'm seeing, you know, they don't have change of clothes or very little change of clothes.

When I was seeing them this morning, their clothes were damped.

I could see parents trying to dry some of the blankets they had.

But, you know, it's been raining almost all the time in the past four or five days.

So it's extremely difficult to keep the children dry.

And with temperature about seven degrees, eight degrees Celsius at night, we are extremely concerned about children getting sick or even worse, dying from hypothermia.

These tents are not really high-quality tents at all.

They are tents which are makeshift tents made with a piece of tarpaulins, a piece of plastic, nailed to a fragile wood structure.

So the day before yesterday, I was on the road moving from Gaza City to the south of Gaza.

And I could see like the heavy winds and families trying just to keep the tent in place because it was simply blown away by the strong winds.

And we're not talking about a few people here.

We're talking about three quarter or one million people who are living in tents.

I don't have the exact figure, but we're talking about large numbers.

So the situation after those days of rains is extremely concerning.