The United Nations has accused Israel of continuing to “systematically” hinder aid to Gaza as local authorities say a seventh forcibly displaced Palestinian has died of hypothermia amid plummeting temperatures.
Families are seeing their tents being completely flooded as 90 percent of the population of Gaza is internally displaced.
Winter used to be a time of public gatherings and family meetings, but now it has become a nightmare.
The situation is worsened by the lack of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, as organisations say Israel is preventing its access.
Warm blankets, winter clothes and fuel needed for heating are all lacking.
Palestinians in Gaza are being killed by bombs, starvation and disease, and now they are freezing to death.
At least seven Palestinians, including six babies, have died of hypothermia in the past week.
That includes a 20-day-old newborn.
Temperatures are plummeting and hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people are struggling to keep warm, in wet conditions in makeshift tents. The UN has warned Israel is dismantling the means of survival in Gaza and systematically hindering humanitarian access.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary has the latest from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.
Security forces demolished an apartment building under construction belonging to a Palestinian family, and bulldozed other infrastructure in the al-Salam District, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli police stormed the Ras Shehada neighbourhood and closed all roads leading to the demolition site, while military vehicles demolished the residential building and bulldozed two streets.
According to data collected by the Jerusalem governorate, Israeli authorities have carried out about 433 bulldozing and demolition operations in the area since October 7, 2023.
Mansour Shouman, a Palestinian journalist and humanitarian worker, said two million civilians have been left vulnerable as temperatures drop in Gaza.
“Their children are dying because of lack of food, lack of warmth, lack of water and lack of hygiene products,” he said.
Shouman said people have been under siege for almost three months in northern Gaza, adding that Israel is targeting journalists and humanitarian workers.
“Only two days ago, humanitarian workers in the north, in Gaza City that I work directly with have been targeted,” the journalist said.
“They were trying to give aid to around 3,000 orphans – they had bags, clothes and cash in envelopes,” he added.
Shouman said most of the aid workers in question were killed, but the aid has luckily been recovered.
“They are still trying to get it to the orphans in need,” he revealed.
“What is happening is a genocide and a scar on the modern world,” the journalist concluded.
Aljazeera
