Tents in winter: Dislocated by war, Gazans struggle to find shelter
From her tent in Rafah, Mirvat Alsaid learned the fate of her Gaza City home.
Watching an Al Jazeera broadcast from northern Gaza City on her phone two weeks ago, she recognized the neighborhood and the very street where her family’s Al Malish No. 9 apartment building once stood.
The camera panned to its location, revealing a pile of concrete and steel. The family’s home had been reduced to ruins by an Israeli missile. They had five years left on the 12-year loan they took to buy the apartment.
Now she and her nine children and grandchildren share a makeshift nylon tarp tent on a dusty patch in Rafah that is “cold,
