Rain hammered the sprawling encampments across Gaza on Saturday, turning roads into rivers, soaking freezing families inside their tents and forcing people to sweep dirty water from their shelters as it pooled around their beds and belongings.

The storms arrived as cold weather set in, adding new urgency to humanitarian concerns for the strip’s 2 million residents, and as tensions flare up in Israel within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet .

Sana Abu Harad, 38, cried out as she pointed to her shivering child and the drenched set of beds on the wet and muddied floor inside her tent in a Gaza City camp.

“Everything is underwater,” she told NBC News. “Why must this little child sleep in floodwater? I struggled so much just to get this tent, and now nothing protects us. Where

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