TEL AVIV — Torrential rain has turned the Gaza Strip’s tent cities into swamps, killed at least a dozen people and washed away hopes that a ceasefire that has lasted two months would substantially improve the quality of life for millions of displaced people.

“No one brought us anything,” Nael Salah told NBC News on Thursday, standing ankle-deep in a large puddle in front of several flooded tents at a camp in northern Gaza’s Zeitoun camp. “We were flooded, yet we didn’t receive a single mattress, not one blanket, nothing at all.”

It’s a familiar scene in the war-battered enclave where murky brown floodwaters have swept away tents and drenched people's possessions and food, and temperatures have plunged, since winter storm Byron swept in this week , adding to the already desperate huma

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