From Aljazeera 12/10/25: According to earlier data from the media office, Gaza requires about 300,000 tents and prefabricated housing units to meet the most basic shelter needs of Palestinians after Israel destroyed infrastructure over two years of the genocidal war.
ONCE AGAIN, dear friends, we appeal to you for your financial generosity to support the efforts of Dr Jehad Hasanain in helping people of his community who have little or no financial resources.
YOUR FINANCIAL GENEROSITY HELPS DR. JEHAD HELP OTHERS.
Winter has begun, and rain and cold besiege the people in Gaza. Many tents have deteriorated or are insufficient to protect them from the harsh conditions from which there is no escape.
Like many others displaced by the genocidal actions of Israel, Dr Jehad and his family are living in a tent community on a beach near Khan Younis. While he continues to work as a doctor and provide for his family, he also tends to the needs of the poorest in his community as best he can.
Messages from Dr Jehad:
12/8/2025 (When asked about the availability of tents)
…There are many trucks entering Gaza filled with tents, food and many other things. This is happening because there is an agreement to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
Unfortunately, the tents are not being distributed fairly because there are no supervisory bodies and no government to monitor the situation.
Therefore, the tents are sold illegally on the black market, and the poor cannot afford to buy them.
There will be heavy rains in two days, which will flood the poor people’s worn-out tents, so we must help them as soon as possible.
I bought good tents and distributed them.
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And on 12/11/2025 (After a day of hard rain and cold)
I cannot bear all this suffering and the cries of the people. People’s hearts are deeply wounded.
Like them, I thought that the suffering would end with the ceasefire. But unfortunately, dozens of disasters occur every day.
I finished my shift at the hospital yesterday and arrived home in the morning. I then went to help the camps next to me to provide assistance as much as I could.
I just got home. I feel exhausted from all the tears I’ve seen and the pleas and requests for help.
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From today: 12/16/2025
Last night in Gaza, the wind tore my tent apart,
and the rain drowned everything I had — clothes, blankets, even the little things I tried to save. Now I stand in the cold, searching for a new tent, a mattress, and dry blankets.
Everything we owned is soaked, useless in this harsh winter.
This is not just my story.
It’s the daily misery of thousands in Gaza,
living under fabric walls that cannot hold back storms, and skies that show no mercy.
We don’t sleep — we survive the night.
And when morning comes, we start again… for nothing!
In Gaza, we’ve moved past anger.
The rage we once felt toward the occupation has been buried under layers of grief, exhaustion, and endless loss. Now, all we fight for is the right to live — not with ease, but with dignity… to simply survive.
After all the death, destruction, and heartbreak this war has brought, we no longer scream — we endure. With patience. With shattered hands. With broken hearts.
We are tired.
Tired of setting up tents, stretching tarps, carrying mattresses and blankets for those who have nothing…only to watch the wind tear it all down, and the rain wash away every bit of our effort.
How do we keep helping, when even the sky works against us? How do we keep standing when the ground beneath us turns to mud and grief?
We don’t want revenge.
We want rest.
We want safety.
We want a life where we don’t have to rebuild from zero every single day.
Is that too much to ask?”
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