'It feels like hell': Gaza families battle suffocating summer heat in tents

'It feels like hell': Gaza families battle suffocating summer heat in tents Submitted by Maha Hussaini on Tue, 07/28/2026 - 07:33 With little water, electricity or shade, residents face rising health risks inside makeshift shelters amid ongoing Israeli siege A girl fills containers with water drawn from the leftovers of underground pipes at a camp for people displaced by war in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City on 6 July 2026 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP) Off When Middle East Eye met Rajaa Jendiya in January, she described Gaza's winter as the harshest she had endured in nearly two years of displacement. Now, the rain has stopped, but the same tent that failed to protect the Palestinian widow and mother of three from the winter cold has become a trap for stifling heat under Gaza's summer sun. "It's exactly like living in a greenhouse.