Overview
- A UN assessment found pests in four out of five of 1,600 surveyed displacement sites and warned of widespread skin disease.
- Doctors in central Gaza say they treat scabies and other skin infections every day, which they link to dirty water and broken sanitation.
- Displaced families describe rats biting sleeping infants and elderly people, with thin tents on soft sand letting rodents burrow and spoil stored food.
- Aid groups report Israeli inspections and rejections have delayed medicine, fuel, food and pest-control supplies, deepening the health risks in the camps.
- Despite a ceasefire that began in October 2025, 1.7 million of 2.2 million Gazans remain displaced, with the Gaza health ministry reporting at least 777 people killed since then and the Israeli military reporting five soldiers killed.