Overview
- Heavy storms over recent days flooded makeshift displacement sites, with the UN confirming more than 13,000 households affected within hours of the first downpour.
- Gaza’s Government Media Office says about 288,000 displaced families face a shelter crisis and that 300,000 tents or mobile homes are urgently needed, accusing Israel of blocking their entry despite the ceasefire.
- UNRWA says supplies to fill roughly 6,000 trucks are staged in Jordan and Egypt and that only about half of the 500–600 daily trucks required are entering, while Israel’s COGAT rejects claims of deliberate restrictions.
- Gaza authorities report more than 282 alleged ceasefire violations by Israeli forces since October 10 and at least 266 people killed, with local reports citing fresh strikes in Khan Younis, Gaza City’s Zeitoun area, Rafah and Beit Lahiya.
- Gaza’s health ministry reports the cumulative death toll from the hostilities has surpassed 69,000, with more than 170,000 wounded.