RAINS drenched Gaza’s tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them today as storm Byron descended on the war-battered enclave.

There is little sign that the two-month-old so-called ceasefire has done much to address the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Children’s sandalled feet disappeared under opaque brown water that flooded the camps. Trucks moved slowly to avoid sending waves of mud toward the tents. Piles of garbage and sewage turned to waterfalls.

“We have been drowned. I don’t have clothes to wear and we have no mattresses left,” said Um Salman Abu Qenas, a mother displaced from east of Khan Younis to a tent camp in Deir al-Balah. She said her family could not sleep the night before because of the water in the tent.

Aid groups say not enough shelter aid is getting into Gaza during the truce.

Figures recently released by Israel’s military suggest it has not met the ceasefire stipulation of allowing 600 trucks of aid into Gaza a day, though Israel disputes that finding.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said today: “This suffering could be prevented by unhindered humanitarian aid, including medical support and proper shelter.”

Ahmad Abu Taha, a Palestinian man in the camp, said there was not a tent that escaped the flooding. “Conditions are very bad, we have old people, displaced, and sick people inside this camp,” he said.

Under the agreement, Israel agreed that it would allow 600 trucks of aid each day into Gaza and an agreed number of temporary homes and tents.

Israeli authorities maintain, without providing evidence, that they have “lately” let 260,000 tents and tarpaulins into Gaza and over 1,500 trucks of blankets and warm clothing.

The Shelter Cluster, an international coalition of aid providers led by the Norwegian Refugee Council, says only 15,590 tents have been allowed into Gaza since the truce began.