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\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n Fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/p>\n 9 November 2026<\/p>\n NEW YORK \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Three children aged four, five and eight were killed along with their mother over the weekend when a sand dune collapsed onto their tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, after heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n The heavy rains directly affected more than 106,000 people, damaging or destroying shelters, latrines, and belongings. An estimated 950,000 displaced people live in flood-exposed areas, including 400,000, almost half of whom are children, in locations at extremely high risk.<\/p>\n \u201cThese children and their mother were killed because they had nowhere safe to sleep. That is the reality in Gaza today,\u201d said Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. \u201cFamilies are living without the most basic conditions for their safety, health and dignity. More children could die without proper shelter, working water and sanitation systems, and the equipment needed to restore essential services. The worst of winter is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n The deaths happened as families, exhausted by war and the protracted crisis, prepare to face a fourth winter under very dire conditions. Some 1.7 million displaced people are still living in tents, makeshift shelters, or damaged buildings exposed to flooding, cold and collapse.<\/p>\n The flooding caused by the heavy rains is compounding a sanitation crisis created by the war.\u00a0 No wastewater treatment plant in Gaza is currently operational. In Gaza City, rainwater mixed with sewage is threatening to overflow from the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin, where only two of six pumps still work. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF has been seeking approval from Israeli authorities for more than a year to bring in the equipment needed to repair the facility.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the cold is another deadly threat, particularly for newborns. Last winter, 11 children were reported to have died of hypothermia. Without adequate protection, the worsening conditions pose a real risk that more children could die as winter takes hold.<\/p>\n Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF and partners are distributing tarpaulins, winter clothing, blankets, and hygiene supplies, clearing blocked sewers and stormwater basins, and installing sandbags at sites to mitigate the impact of flooding.\u00a0 In the past week alone, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF reached at least 10,000 children with winter clothing and thermal blankets, distributed tarpaulins to families whose tents have flooded, and cleared sewage and stormwater at more than 50 locations.<\/p>\n The emergency response is vital but is not a long-term solution. Tents and tarpaulins offer little protection against severe storms, and damaged water and sanitation systems continue to put children\u2019s health and lives at risk.<\/p>\n Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF urgently calls on the Israeli authorities to allow the immediate entry of pumps, generators, spare parts and other materials needed to repair water and sanitation infrastructure, including the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin and the Sheikh Ejleen Wastewater Treatment Plant.<\/p>\n Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF urges the international community to join the call for the entry of all life-saving humanitarian supplies and equipment, and to provide urgent funding for Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF’s US$97.5 million winter response in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 Espa\u00f1ol Fran\u00e7ais 9 November 2026 Nearly 1 million displaced people live in flood-exposed areas, including 400,000 at extremely high risk, almost half of them children. 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