Overview
- Torrential rain inundated encampments across the Strip, with Gaza’s civil defence saying most tent sites were flooded.
- An eight-month-old girl died of exposure in Khan Younis, and local officials later reported additional dead or missing, at least 13 building collapses and 27,000 tents flooded.
- Emergency crews logged more than 2,500 distress calls and said fuel shortages and destroyed equipment left them unable to respond effectively.
- UN bodies and NGOs say about 300,000 tents or prefabricated units are urgently needed but only a fraction has entered during the truce, a contention Israeli authorities dispute.
- OCHA warned nearly 850,000 people in 761 sites face the highest flood risk, and UN agencies flagged disease dangers as sewage contaminates pooled water, with IOM citing delays on pumps, sandbags and shelter materials.