Overview
- Heavy rains in Gaza flooded thousands of displaced families, prompting rapid shelter deployments, while OCHA says millions of needed items remain stuck in Jordan, Egypt and Israel and 23 import requests were recently rejected.
- Israeli authorities told the UN the Zikim crossing will reopen for humanitarian cargo under interim procedures that require scanning elsewhere and offloading from Israeli trucks before reloading onto Palestinian trucks on separate days.
- Humanitarian partners report critical equipment for water, sanitation and medical‑waste management remains blocked from entering Gaza, and denied repair access to a damaged fiber‑optic line near Erez risks a wider Internet outage that could hinder operations.
- OCHA-led assessments continue across Gaza with 27 health service points reopened or newly established since the ceasefire, while distributions of tarpaulins, blankets, mattresses and clothing increase but still fall short of vast winter needs.
- Beyond Gaza, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher engaged Sudanese leaders and allocated US$20 million from CERF for Darfur and Kordofan, as partners report worsening violence and severe underfunding in eastern DRC and a nationwide drought emergency in Somalia with the plan only 22% funded.