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UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said Wednesday that waiting for a new Israeli government to form is not an acceptable reason to delay winter supplies for Gaza. His statement came days after heavy rain flooded displacement sites across the Strip. Fletcher urged Israel to open all crossings and let aid groups operate.
The UN says more than 150,000 tents are outside Gaza ready to be dispatched. However, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said the UN needs permission from Israeli authorities to bring more supplies through the crossings.
The rain began the evening of November 6 and continued through the weekend, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Site Management Cluster (SMC), a coalition of aid groups that support displacement sites in the occupied Palestinian territory, recorded 268 site alerts as of Sunday morning. Of those, 264 were related to heavy rain and flooding, affecting more than 26,000 households overall. SMC reported that 6,136 shelters were destroyed and 17,400 damaged, and that 3,938 households were sleeping outside with no shelter. SMC cautioned that its figures only reflect alerts from participating partners, and that the overall scale of damage is likely significantly higher.
Many of those in the sites were forced from their homes during the war. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council in January 2024 that 85 percent of Gaza’s population, about 1.9 million people, had been forcibly displaced. A June assessment by the Palestine Shelter Cluster found that 54 percent of 1,951 surveyed households in accessible areas of Gaza lived in tents and another 11 percent in makeshift shelters. OCHA currently estimates that about 65 percent of Gaza’s population, roughly 1.4 million people, live in tents or makeshift shelters.
The rain follows a severely dry 2024-25 season, when Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria each received less than half their average rainfall, according to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Monday that “unusually” high precipitation totals were recorded in the Middle East this year, though water shortages persist in the region.
Fletcher’s remarks followed a Monday statement from the Board of Peace, which called Israel’s response to the flooding “insufficient.” Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office said it has facilitated a winterization plan in coordination with the Board of Peace and the UN. OCHA, however, said on Monday that humanitarian partners urgently need more Israeli approvals to bring in shelter items, engine oil, spare parts and heavy machinery, along with more funding.
It is the fourth consecutive winter since the war began.
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The UN says more than 150,000 tents are outside Gaza ready to be dispatched. However, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said the UN needs permission from Israeli authorities to bring more supplies through the crossings.
The rain began the evening of November 6 and continued through the weekend, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Site Management Cluster (SMC), a coalition of aid groups that support displacement sites in the occupied Palestinian territory, recorded 268 site alerts as of Sunday morning. Of those, 264 were related to heavy rain and flooding, affecting more than 26,000 households overall. SMC reported that 6,136 shelters were destroyed and 17,400 damaged, and that 3,938 households were sleeping outside with no shelter. SMC cautioned that its figures only reflect alerts from participating partners, and that the overall scale of damage is likely significantly higher.
Many of those in the sites were forced from their homes during the war. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council in January 2024 that 85 percent of Gaza’s population, about 1.9 million people, had been forcibly displaced. A June assessment by the Palestine Shelter Cluster found that 54 percent of 1,951 surveyed households in accessible areas of Gaza lived in tents and another 11 percent in makeshift shelters. OCHA currently estimates that about 65 percent of Gaza’s population, roughly 1.4 million people, live in tents or makeshift shelters.
The rain follows a severely dry 2024-25 season, when Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria each received less than half their average rainfall, according to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Monday that “unusually” high precipitation totals were recorded in the Middle East this year, though water shortages persist in the region.
Fletcher’s remarks followed a Monday statement from the Board of Peace, which called Israel’s response to the flooding “insufficient.” Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office said it has facilitated a winterization plan in coordination with the Board of Peace and the UN. OCHA, however, said on Monday that humanitarian partners urgently need more Israeli approvals to bring in shelter items, engine oil, spare parts and heavy machinery, along with more funding.
It is the fourth consecutive winter since the war began.
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