Thousands of tents supplied by China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to shelter displaced Palestinians in Gaza offer only limited protection against rain and wind, an assessment compiled by shelter specialists in the devastated territory has revealed.
The assessment will undermine claims that Palestinians in Gaza are being supplied with adequate shelter. Fierce storms in recent weeks blew down or damaged thousands of tents, affecting at least 235,000 people, according to UN estimates.
Prepared by the Palestine Shelter Cluster, which coordinates the activities of nearly 700 non-government organisations in Palestine and is jointly chaired by the Red Cross and the UN, the assessment found that newly delivered tents housing hundreds of thousands of people would “likely need to be replaced”.
“The fabric [of the Egyptian tents] tears easily as sewing quality is poor,” it reported. “The fabric is not waterproof. Other issues include small windows, weak structure, no flooring, the roof collects water due to the design of the tent, and no mesh for openings.”
Tents from Saudi Arabia were criticised as having “non-waterproof light fabric, weak structure” and tents donated by China were “very light” and not waterproof.
Those supplied by Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations were judged to have met the specifications of UN experts.
The findings – based on 9,000 responses to a poll on social media in November, observations “from partners on the ground” and “community feedback” – will raise new questions about the quality of aid being supplied directly to Gaza by individual countries, which have been favoured by Israeli authorities seeking to bypass the UN.
Look at what claim 1 is. Because THE JOOOOS don’t work with the UN therefore the Pallys are being left tentless. Or reasonably tentless. It is the fault of THE JOOOOS, obviously, not the people who sent the tents. Of course.
Sigh.
Now really think about this. The people who aren’t allowed to manage the aid – the UN – are complaining that the aid – not being managed by the UN – isn’t good enough. Now who could have predicted that reaction from a bureaucracy?
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<i>700 non-government organisations in Palestine</i>
What the bloody hell? We didn’t have that many in my *CITY* when I was a city councillor.
Flies and NGOs appear to flock together…
(I’m not sure flock is the word I’m looking for, but it’s pre-coffee, so there we are…
It’s much easier to fraud when your organization is international, and you can’t put honest auditors on the ground because when they report the wrong thing they’re killed.
Saudi Arabia : provided old Bedouin tents
Egypt : provided old army tents from Yom Kippur War ( which were probably all left behind by the British and French after Suez anyway )
China : ordered its tents off of Temu.
If I could be bothered I reckon I’d find articles praising those countries and using them as an example to shame western governments, especially us and the USA.
“nearly 700 non-government organisations in Palestine”
Machine guns! Wielded by lions with flamethrowers.
Congrats to Qatar and the UAE. I wonder where they bought their tents from?
Cheap tents. Now is the winter of our discount tents.
+100 for lols
Lol. Bravo.
Oh, very good! /applause!
Tents manufactured in countries with no significant rainfall, like Saudi Arabia, aren’t waterproof? Well, you could knock me down with a feather!
And when it does rain in those areas there aren’t many tents in the world that will provide shelter.
Palestine Shelter Clusterfuck
Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’
Good. God hates Palestine.
Fuck you.
There is such a thing as “shelter specialists”? ……
If the population of London (which was >Gaza) could shelter in the Underground during the Blitz, and the tunnels of Gaza are as extensive, I can’t help thinking what’s getting in the way of packing your tent and going underground when the local mehmet office issues a warning.
From a technical point of view underground is very downhill. And downhill is where rain flows to. So if you have tunnels & any sort of serious rain, you’re going to have to be pumping. The London Underground is pumped. Those big heavy watertight doors in the low level stations are there for what happens if they can’t pump. So no, the Gaza tunnels are not a shelter solution. Not without reliable pumping, they’re not. More like deathtraps.
Big savings on burial cost.
Not just stormwater, but groundwater too. And ventilation. Short term, perhaps. But something tells me the London Underground was built with a lot more safety features.
Oh, they can’t use the tunnels because those are reserved for Hamas weapons storage and bomb making.
There are people in Reform who have been alleged to make bad remarks about Jews.
Nigel Farage has been accused of bullying Jewish kids at school over the Holocaust. He is alleged to have been above the age of criminal responsibility at the time. If he did bully Jewish kids he should never be PM.
And the Deputy Chairman of Reform Nuttall has been alleged to have written horrific nonsense about Jews and the Holocaust.
Thank you for the increase in the Reform polling. Keep up the good work.
Three allegeds, one accused and one if (but zero factual evidence) all in a relatively short post.
Real man is upping his game.
Bot.
No, he’s not a bot. He’s a lot sadder than that.
Real Man / Barry / The Bummed Ranger manually types out all of his retarded messages on Tim Worstall dot com and ConHome, then retires to his shed to wank himself silly thinking about Jeremy Corbyn.
He has the personality of a bot.
You are a warped depraved woman with an attaction to bad boys and bullies. Evil. .
Nobody should listen to your sick values.
Creepy sexual comments about old men show your sick Creepy mind.
Incidentally. This is the reason you don’t want the pencil necked, graduate, desk jockey know nothings who organised this organising anything. Anyone with any experience will know any tent you can pick up with one hand will either be survival equipment the size of a dog kennel or the sort of thing you buy out of an Argos catalogue for a bit of fair weather leisure camping. It will not be something to live in long term in any serious weather.
And you could discern this simply from the shipping documents, without going anywhere near the tents. Total weight of consignment divided by number of tents. Anything less than 50kg forget it. 100kg is in the right area.
If they were any good the tarps would have been seized and repurposed to insulate and waterproof the all-important tunnel network.
45 years ago at school I did Materials Technology, and the course project was to design just such an emergency shelter. It was very insightflul to the complications of combining weatherproofing with heat retention with strength with cost. From memory my solution would have withstood an elephant standing on it, but would be freezing cold. As it was cylindrical it would probably have blown merrily away in the slightest wind.
OT, but a Sydney fisherman got investigated (over very quickly, with I’m sure a certain amount of “why are we wasting our our time on this” sighs from the police) for the name of his boat. Jew Hunter. He fishes for jewfish, otherwise known as mulloway. They’ve been called that for decades.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/owner-of-jew-hunter-boat-avoids-charges-after-claiming-fishing-slogan-mistake/news-story/e9ff6d7f3957666522b1a51efb82f890
It was called in by a concerned member of the public…
The poor bugger has repainted his boat.