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Simon Brooke
Simon Brooke
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

It's obvious that something has gone badly wrong with the supply of tents to #Gaza. Many of the tents that have been supplied are not standing up to the weather.

In three weeks in December, according to #UNWRA

> more than 42,000 tents or makeshift shelters are estimated to have sustained full or partial damage

https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-202-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem

This is out of an estimated 90,000 tents that have arrived in Gaza over the past two years, according to the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/tents-supplied-to-displaced-palestinians-inadequate-for-gaza-winter

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the Guardian

Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’

Thousands have blown down in storms and tents from China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia found to be not waterproof
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