Gaza floods destroy 250 tents at one camp; NGO presses Bundestag
Bonn – November 10, 2026 -- Weekend rains destroyed 250 tents and badly damaged 500 more at a single Gaza camp, Welthungerhilfe said, as the German aid organization urged the Bundestag to raise humanitarian funding to €2.8 billion.
Half of Gaza's displacement camps sit in high flood-risk zones
About half of the camps, which house nearly one million people, lie in areas with a high risk of flooding, according to Welthungerhilfe Secretary General Mathias Mogge. Some sites are low-lying sandy ground where water collects quickly and ruins tarps, mattresses and food. Others have clay soils that turn into mud flats, destroying belongings and flooding latrines.
Welthungerhilfe operates a bread-baking oven at the Al Ard Al Tayyeba camp in Khan Younis, where 800 families have taken shelter. The 250 destroyed and 500 badly damaged tents were all at that site.