一家总部位于英国的人权组织警告称，由于以色列的限制，加沙地带超过50万名儿童没有安全的住所。与此同时，该地区遭遇首场冬季风暴，一天之内数万顶帐篷被淹。
A UK-based rights group has warned that more than half a million children in the Gaza Strip are without safe shelter due to Israeli restrictions, as the territory’s first winter storm flooded tens of thousands of tents in a single day.
救助儿童会在一场强风暴过后发表声明称，加沙超过50万名儿童正面临在破损帐篷或临时搭建的住所中度过的第四个冬天，许多人靠焚烧垃圾取暖，而以色列的限制继续阻止用于保护他们免受寒冷和洪水侵袭的材料进入。
More than half a million children in Gaza are now facing their fourth winter in torn tents or makeshift shelters, many burning garbage to stay warm, as Israel’s restrictions continue to block the entry of materials needed to keep them safe from cold and flooding, Save the Children said in a statement following a powerful storm.
据政府媒体办公室称，周五晚间袭击加沙的风暴淹没了超过7万顶帐篷，并导致数十面因战争受损的墙壁倒塌。
A storm that struck Gaza on Friday evening flooded more than 70,000 tents and brought down dozens of war-damaged walls, according to the Government Media Office.
加沙民防部门表示，周日深夜，代尔巴拉赫一处沙土堤坝坍塌，压倒了收容流离失所巴勒斯坦人的帐篷，造成两名妇女和三名儿童死亡。
Two women and three children were killed late Sunday when a sand embankment collapsed onto tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza’s Civil Defense said.
救助儿童会周日援引巴勒斯坦庇护集群最近的评估称，加沙约58%的人口——即120万人，其中包括超过56万名儿童——目前生活在“危急或灾难性”的住所条件下。
Citing a recent assessment from the Palestine Shelter Cluster, Save the Children said Sunday that about 58% of people in Gaza — or 1.2 million people, including over 560,000 children — are currently living in “critical or catastrophic” shelter conditions.
该组织表示：“虽然一年多前宣布的所谓停火规定允许活动房屋进入，作为比帐篷更耐用的替代方案，但以色列当局一再阻止其进入加沙，使数十万儿童再次暴露在又一个严酷的冬天之中。”
“While the so-called ceasefire announced over a year ago stipulated the entry of caravans as a more durable alternative to tents, Israeli authorities have repeatedly blocked their entry into Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands of children exposed to another winter of hardship,” said the group.
“所谓停火……未能保护巴勒斯坦儿童”。庇护集群评估所调查的家庭中，近一半表示他们不得不焚烧塑料、轮胎、垃圾或纸板来做饭，84%的家庭表示他们没有有效的方式为住所供暖。
‘So-called ceasefire … failed to protect Palestinian children’ Nearly half of families surveyed by the Shelter Cluster assessment said they are resorting to burning plastic, tires, garbage or cardboard for cooking, with 84% saying they have no effective way to heat their shelters.
声明警告说：“焚烧这些材料释放的有毒烟雾可导致严重的健康问题，包括呼吸系统疾病、烟雾吸入和一氧化碳中毒，以及火灾和烧伤。”
“The toxic fumes released by burning these materials can cause serious health problems, including respiratory illnesses, smoke inhalation, and carbon monoxide poisoning as well as fires and burns,” the statement warned.
救助儿童会强调，以色列政府实施的限制还导致其他冬季关键物资难以进入，包括帐篷、防水布、塑料薄膜、保温材料、毯子、燃料、烹饪用气、取暖设备，以及修复受损住所所需的建筑材料。
Save the Children underlined that restrictions imposed by the Israeli government have also limited the entry of other critical items for winter, including tents, tarpaulins, plastic sheeting, insulation materials, blankets, fuel, cooking gas, heating equipment and construction materials needed to repair damaged shelters.
该组织警告称，对加沙儿童而言，这些条件可能“致命并危及生命”，并表示去年加沙地带据报有11名儿童死于失温。
Warning that for children in Gaza, these conditions can be “deadly and life threatening,” the group said 11 children were reported to have died from hypothermia in the strip last year.
救助儿童会国际区域主任艾哈迈德·阿尔亨达维说：“孩子们在严寒中瑟瑟发抖，没有冬衣，家庭失去了他们仅剩的少量财物。这令人心碎，而且完全可以预见。”
“Children shivered in the bitter cold without winter clothing, and families lost the few belongings they had left. It is heartbreaking, and it was entirely foreseeable,” said Ahmad Alhendawi, regional director at Save the Children International.
他指出，这并非“仅仅是恶劣天气的结果”，并称帐篷、住所套件和燃料正滞留在加沙边境，而孩子们睡在洪水中，因为以色列当局阻止这些物资进入。
He noted that this is not “simply the result of bad weather,” saying that tents, shelter kits and fuel are waiting at Gaza’s borders while children sleep in floodwater because the Israeli authorities are blocking their entry.
他补充说：“这是一种选择，而孩子们正在付出代价。所谓的停火已持续一年多，却未能保护巴勒斯坦儿童。”
“This is a choice, and children are paying the price. More than a year into the so-called ceasefire, it has failed to protect Palestinian children,” he added.