70,000 Tents for Displaced People in Gaza Submerged Due to Weather Low
The Government Media Office announces that 70,000 tents for displaced people in Gaza were submerged due to the weather low.
Translated by Qiyas from كونا — Original source
Gaza – Media authorities in Gaza, the Government Media Office, announced on Saturday that approximately 70,000 tents sheltering displaced persons have been flooded due to a weather depression whose effects began impacting the Strip over the past 12 hours. In a press statement, the authorities said the flooding of the tents had damaged thousands of displaced families and caused the collapse of dozens of walls, resulting in injuries of varying severity, including serious cases, across the Strip’s governorates. They added that preliminary estimates of direct material losses from the depression reached around $3 million, warning of the risk of dozens of cracked and dilapidated buildings collapsing due to previous Israeli bombardment. The authorities noted that the worsening humanitarian situation was due to the continued closure of border crossings and the prohibition of importing essential shelter and reconstruction materials needed to protect displaced persons and address the impacts of the weather depression. Relief teams and local bodies had previously warned of a humanitarian disaster with the onset of winter. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported that approximately 1.98 million people in the Gaza Strip, equivalent to 94 percent of the population, are in urgent need of shelter assistance, with 58 percent facing critical or catastrophic needs. (End) WA / TA
