12 December 2025

OCHA says that heavy rain continued overnight across the Gaza Strip, flooding more tents and causing damaged buildings to collapse in Jabalya and Gaza city. Several casualties were reported, including among children.

Humanitarian partners warn that inclement weather conditions and flooding are increasing the risk of disease outbreaks, including water-borne illnesses, as drainage systems overflow and water sources become contaminated. They stress that to enable urgently needed work to collect and safely dispose of waste, the immediate and sustained entry into Gaza of spare parts and access to essential machinery must be facilitated.

As temperatures drop, families are struggling to keep their children warm at night, as they lack access to gas and electricity. They are also exhausted as they continue to seek out safer shelter on higher ground.

Partners are distributing winter clothing, tarpaulins and tents to affected families.*?However, they estimate that some 1.3 million people still need urgent shelter assistance across Gaza. They??that since the ceasefire just over two months ago, fewer than 50,000 tents for about 270,000 people have entered Gaza. This includes both Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-coordinated and bilateral aid. Thousands of pallets of shelter materials have been rejected by the Israeli authorities, and many NGOs have been blocked from bringing in relief.

Partners leading on shelter??that more than 140,000 people were affected by earlier rains that flooded more than 200 displacement sites.?They continue to help families access critical services and improve drainage, as hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians remain at heightened risk of flooding.

Families staying along the coast were displaced and are staying with relatives. Many other families sought temporary accommodation in already crowded emergency shelters. As tents and some classrooms were inundated, teams are removing water from flooded yards, clearing manholes, and repairing damaged tents inside school compounds.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA) said that it has shelter supplies for up to 1.3 million people outside Gaza, but the agency has been barred from bringing that aid into the Strip ¨C hindering humanitarian efforts.

Once again, OCHA stresses that restrictions on the entry of aid must be lifted, including the ban on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA and the denial of NGO operations.

West Bank: displacement, settler attacks continue at alarming levels ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

OCHA??that since the beginning of the year, more than 1,000 people have been displaced in Area C, which constitutes some 60 per cent of the West Bank and where ¨C just like in East Jerusalem ¨C the Israeli authorities retain near exclusive control, including over law enforcement, planning and construction. Most of the people displaced had their homes demolished by Israeli authorities for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, which are nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain. This level of displacement is the second highest annual record since 2009.

OCHA also continues to document high levels of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians, with devastating humanitarian impacts.??Since the start of the year and as of today, an average of five such attacks has been recorded each day.

OCHA?calls for the protection of Palestinians across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem ¨C including by halting punitive and other unlawful demolitions and preventing attacks by settlers.