A female citizen was killed today, Friday, by fire from an Israeli occupation attack northwest of Gaza City.
Local sources reported that citizen Mayssa Jaber Al-Attar was killed as a result of being hit by Israeli gunfire from an Israeli occupation attack in the Al-Atatra area, northwest of Gaza City.
Since the ceasefire agreement on October 11, 260 citizens have been killed and more than 630 injured.
Local sources reported that the Israeli military fired artillery shells in the eastern areas of Gaza City.
As the rainy season began in Gaza, with hundreds of thousands of families remaining in tents as internally-displaced refugees, the tents have begun to flood and fill with mud.
Palestinian families are spending the night in the streets, after rain water flooded their displacement tents.
In a desperate attempt to protect their only shelter, displaced parents struggle to drain the water away from their sleeping children, as a single storm was enough to flood the fragile tents.
Rainwater is seeping in from all directions in the tents, Gaza’s displaced families face floods amid the intensifying storms.
UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said that hundreds of tents and temporary shelters in Gaza have been flooded by rain, leaving thousands of families exposed to harsh weather conditions.
He added that Israel has rejected 23 requests to allow nearly 4,000 pallets of essential supplies into Gaza, including much-needed tents.
Palestinian women in Gaza cry for help after their dilapidated tents were flooded early morning by rainfall as the winter arrived the enclave.
Tonight, thousands of displaced Palestinians will spend the night submerged in water, while the Israeli occupation continues to block the entry of prefabricated homes and caravans needed to shelter families at the start of winter.
Dozens of displaced families are left in the streets under heavy rain in the Mowassi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, after their tents were flooded by the downpour today.
Rainwater continues to inundate the shelters of displaced families across Gaza as the storm intensifies, adding to the suffering of nearly half a million people living in makeshift camps and temporary shelters all across the Strip according to the Civil Defense.
Rainwater flooded the Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza after the facility suffered severe damage from over two years of Israeli attacks, leaving its wards exposed and unable to withstand the winter weather.
With nearly half a million displaced families enduring catastrophic conditions in makeshift shelters, hospitals too are collapsing under the combined weight of destruction and the harsh winter flooded, and under resourced.
Also Friday, Canada announced that it will continue sending humanitarian aid to Gaza, and urged the Israeli government to stop impeding the access of aid into the country.
This came in a press statement by the Canadian Foreign Minister Nita Anand, following a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Seven major countries in the Canadian region of Niagara. Anand stressed that there is an “urgent need for lasting peace and stability” in the Middle East.
Anand added that regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza, “we will continue to call for the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid.”
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti warned Friday that U.S.–Israeli plans for post-war Gaza risk imposing “a new occupation” by politically severing Gaza from the occupied West Bank and placing it under foreign supervision.
Speaking to Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill, the Palestinian National Initiative leader stressed that Palestinians agree Gaza must be run by Palestinians, remain linked to the occupied West Bank, and host only a UN peacekeeping presence to ensure full Israeli withdrawal.
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