DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Rains drenched Gaza's tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as a winter storm descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two months of a ceasefire have failed to sufficiently address the spiraling humanitarian crisis there.

Families found their possessions and food supplies soaked inside their tents. Children's sandaled feet disappeared under opaque brown water that flooded the camps, running knee deep in some places. Dirt roads turned to mud. Piles of garbage and sewage cascaded like waterfalls.

"We have been drowned. I don't have clothes to wear and we have no mattresses left," said Um Salman Abu Qenas, a displaced mother in a Khan Younis tent camp. She said that her family couldn't sleep the night

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