Deir el-Balah, Gaza – After a night of relentless rain, Arafat al-Ghandour and his wife, Nour, finally exhaled in relief as the morning sun emerged, if only briefly, over the soaked displacement camp.The couple, parents of five, live in a worn tent riddled with holes. They spent the night battling water pouring in from every direction.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listArafat, 39, shares the cramped space, no larger than eight square metres (86sq feet), with 15 family members, including his elderly parents, his sister and her family, and his brother’s wife and children. The conditions, he says, are “inhumane”.“All night I was plugging the holes with rags and plastic bags,” Arafat told Al Jazeera. “I haven’t slept yet. And they say the storm hasn’t really started.”In the early morning, the family hurried to spread their drenched clothes, blankets, and belongings in the sunlight.“We finally breathed a sigh of relief when the sun came out,” said Nour, sitting beside her husband. “All our clothes were soaked. We have nothing else. Even our blankets and the children’s clothes were drenched. I took the kids outside immediately just to dry off a little.”Nour described the panic of waking up to find water pouring into the tent.“My children were asleep and soaked. I started waking them one by one so they wouldn’t get even more drenched,” she said. “T …
