Overview
- Heavy overnight downpours inundated tents in Gaza City neighborhoods including Al-Nafaq, Al-Daraj, Yarmouk, Al-Zaytoun and Al-Shati, with flooding also reported in parts of Deir el-Balah.
- Gaza Civil Defense said it received hundreds of distress calls from displacement sites as some shelters collapsed and families reported soaked mattresses, blankets and clothing.
- OCHA estimates about one million people are living in 862 sites and more than 1.4 million need shelter items after damage to roughly 320,000 housing units.
- Hospital operations were disrupted when ground floors flooded, including at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital where staff moved children to higher floors.
- UN agencies and aid groups report continued limits on the entry of tents and other supplies by Israeli authorities, and the Palestinian Meteorological Department warns of further storms in the coming days.