Almost all Gaza residents need shelter as El Niño threatens flooding, UN agency says
Only 17% of winter shelter needs are met, and 8,600 emergency shelter kits remain blocked at crossings, the IOM said.
- On Oct 9, the United Nations reported that nearly 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza face a fourth winter without adequate shelter, with current humanitarian supplies covering only 17% of identified winter needs.
- The Nino weather phenomenon risks intensifying winter rains, which could 'further weaken unsafe buildings,' while IOM reported deaths of 21 people, including 12 children, after a six-storey building collapsed in Gaza.
- Approximately 8,600 IOM emergency shelter kits remain pre-positioned outside Gaza, yet Israeli authorities continue turning them away at crossing points; more than half of existing makeshift shelters are in poor condition.
- Israel cites security concerns regarding Hamas for preventing item entry, though IOM leader Amy Pope stated that materials must enter "quickly and at the scale required" to address the crisis.
- The World Health Organization warned recently that the rainy season increases disease risk, and the United Nations is calling for international funding and for Israel to ease constraints on critical supply entry.
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Geneva. Almost the entire population of Gaza needs help in order to find shelter for the winter, as the El Niño weather phenomenon is expected to cause more intense rains that could cause flooding and collapses of structures in the destroyed territory, while supplies in the enclave are scarce after Israeli restrictions, the United Nations (UN) warned yesterday.
Near a 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza "are preparing to face a fourth winter without adequate protection from rain, floods and cold," says the humanitarian organization.
Almost all Gaza residents need shelter as El Niño threatens flooding
Almost all of Gaza’s population need tents or help with shelter ahead of winter, with the El Niño weather phenomenon expected to bring heavier rainfall, while supplies remain scarce due to Israeli restrictions, the UN migration agency said on Friday. The El Niño – which could be the strongest ever, according to the UN weather […]
As winter approaches, some 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing a double threat, after the Israeli war of extermination has turned their homes into rubble, leaving thousands of families in wasteful tents and cracked buildings that are unheeded and do not withstand rain, while shelter requirements outside the Strip are still trapped by Israeli restrictions on the introduction of aid.
The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned that, for the fourth consecutive year, some 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip would face a very harsh winter under difficult living conditions and a severe shortage of adequate shelter, with the continuing aftermath of the war and severe Israeli restrictions on access to basic supplies.
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