Palestinians cross a flooded street following heavy rain in Khan Younis on Thursday.

Rains drenched Gaza’s tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two months of a ceasefire have failed to sufficiently address the spiralling humanitarian crisis there.

Families found their possessions and food supplies soaked inside their tents. Children’s sandalled feet disappeared under opaque brown water that flooded the camps, running knee deep in some places. Trucks moved slowly to avoid sending waves of mud toward the tents. Piles of garbage and sewage turned to waterfalls.

“We have been drowned. I don’t have clothes to wear and we have no mattresses left,” said Um Salman Abu Qe

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