Overview
- Heavy rain and strong winds since Saturday inundated and uprooted thousands of tents across Gaza, with a partially destroyed wall collapsing onto a tent in Gaza City’s Remal area and killing 30-year-old Alaa Marwan Juha while injuring relatives.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry reports at least 12 weather-related deaths since December 13, while the Hamas-run media office says 20 people have been killed this winter and 49 buildings have collapsed.
- UNRWA’s Philippe Lazzarini says relief is not entering at the required scale, as humanitarian groups call for mobile homes, more tents and repairs to damaged sewage networks.
- Shelter Cluster reports about 72,000 tents and 403,000 tarps have entered since the ceasefire began, far below requests for hundreds of thousands of shelter units cited by aid coordinators.
- Israeli officials say 4,200 aid trucks entered Gaza in the past week and point to recent deliveries of tents and tarpaulins, while Netanyahu travels to the United States for talks on a second phase of the ceasefire and Israeli forces pursue an operation in Qabatiya in the West Bank.