Overview
- Authorities and UN officials report at least 12–13 deaths in Gaza over the past day, including infants who died of hypothermia and victims of building collapses weakened by earlier strikes.
- Emergency services logged between roughly 2,500 and more than 4,300 distress calls since the storm began, and Gaza’s media office says over 27,000 tents were inundated or destroyed.
- OCHA estimates about 850,000 people are living in 761 high‑risk displacement sites, and the IOM warns that roughly 795,000 are in immediate danger from flooding and cold.
- The WHO cautions that cold, crowding and contaminated floodwaters will drive acute respiratory infections, hepatitis and diarrheal disease, with shortages of medicines and supplies compounding the threat.
- Relief groups say agreed aid volumes, including a target of 600 trucks per day and large‑scale shelter deliveries, have not been met, claims Israel’s COGAT disputes, as UNRWA says it is barred from bringing in shelter stocks and Hamas figures press for opening Rafah and allowing heavy equipment.