Overview
- Heavy downpours on Tuesday flooded displacement camps across Gaza, with witnesses reporting water rising 40 to 50 centimeters and a field hospital suspending operations.
- The Palestinian Civil Defence Service said thousands of tents were inundated or damaged, and residents described worn tarps and shelters failing at the start of winter.
- Humanitarian leaders called for a major scale‑up in shelter, with the Palestinian NGOs Network urging delivery of at least 300,000 new tents for roughly 1.5 million displaced people.
- OCHA reported at least 13,000 tents damaged in recent storms and noted earlier distributions of 3,600 tents, 129,000 tarpaulins and 87,000 blankets, while COGAT cites hundreds of daily aid trucks and about 140,000 tarps coordinated for winterization.
- Public health risks are rising as nearly half the population gets under six liters of water per day and UNICEF warns more than 320,000 children under five face acute malnutrition, against a backdrop of 91% of homes damaged or destroyed.