Displaced Palestinians enduring winter with little protection from cold

Reda Abu Zarada, 50, sits by a fire with her grandchildren at a camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly two million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 14-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.

There is a shortage of blankets and warm clothing, little wood for fires, and the tents and patched-together tarps families are living in have grown increasingly threadbare after months of heavy use, according to aid workers and residents.