Overview
- Torrential rains inundated displacement camps, destroyed roughly 27,000 tents and caused collapses of weakened buildings, with emergency services reporting thousands of distress calls.
- The World Health Organization cited at least 10 deaths in the past 24 hours, while Gaza authorities and hospitals reported about 14 fatalities overall, including children from hypothermia.
- Aid groups say winterized shelter and key supplies remain insufficient, as Israel’s COGAT touts transfers of about 270,000 tents while UN-led Shelter Cluster counts far fewer entering via UN and NGOs.
- WHO’s Rik Peeperkorn warned of rising respiratory, hepatitis and diarrheal infections amid severe shortages of medicines and slow, complex approvals for medical shipments.
- Israeli forces said a drone strike hit a ‘key’ Hamas operative near the Nabulsi crossing on Rashid Road; hospitals reported 3–4 people killed, media named Raed Saad as the target and Hamas has not confirmed his death.