Israel kills at least three in Gaza, as thousands endure heavy flooding

The Israeli subject has killed astatine slightest 3 Palestinians successful Gaza, arsenic the coastal enclave reeled from dense rains flooding shoddy makeshift tents lodging thousands who person been denied capable structure owing to Israel’s continued throttling of assistance supplies.

A root astatine Nasser Medical Complex told Al Jazeera connected Sunday that 3 radical had been killed aft Israel bombed eastbound of Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza. That aforesaid day, Israel besides struck Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood and areas adjacent to the confederate metropolis of Rafah.

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Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili said the Israeli service was inactive targeting locations wrong the alleged yellow line, which demarcates wherever troops person withdrawn arsenic portion of the ceasefire.

Al-Khalili said the concern was “going from atrocious to worse” for families surviving adjacent the yellowish line, arsenic the subject continued to “demolish residential buildings” and “spread panic” portion they contended with heavy rains flooding makeshift shelters.

The United Nations bureau for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that 13,000 families successful Gaza whose homes were destroyed during 2 years of indiscriminate Israeli bombardment are present exposed to freezing temperatures and flooding successful woefully inadequate shelters.

UN information shows that much than 80 percent of each buildings and lodging units successful Gaza person been damaged oregon destroyed since the commencement of the war. But Israel continues to artifact the introduction of tents and mobile homes into the enclave contempt the ceasefire, which was meant to unleash a travel of assistance to stricken residents.

Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA’s manager of communications, said Israel had placed limitations connected what could participate the enclave, banning definite items deemed to beryllium of dual usage that could perchance beryllium utilized for subject purposes. “Israel … would instrumentality retired galore items that are highly needed, particularly successful this wintertime situation,” she said.

“UNRWA is nether treble the magnitude of scrutiny and restrictions than different agencies contempt being the largest bureau there,” Alrifai said, adding that the UN bureau has capable supplies to capable 6,000 assistance trucks from its warehouses successful Egypt and Jordan.

‘Submerged’

Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said: “It’s been raining for 2 days and radical are telling america that everything has started to leak. Many of these displacement camps are astatine a antithetic elevation to surrounding areas, allowing h2o to tally successful from each sides. Some areas are wholly submerged.”

“For radical sheltering wrong bombed-out buildings, everything is leaking, and determination is simply a hazard that with the dense rains, the buildings could collapse. People who acceptable up tents adjacent the seashore are astatine hazard of beardown tides washing distant their tents,” helium said.

Abdulrahman Asaliyah, a displaced Palestinian successful the city, told Al Jazeera: “All the tents person been flooded, people’s mattresses, their food, their water, their clothes. Everything has been soaked. We are calling for assistance for caller tents that tin astatine slightest support radical from the wintertime cold.”

Caroline Seguin, Gaza exigency coordinator astatine Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF), said that galore radical were awakened by the floods and were acrophobic to spell backmost to sleep. “In Gaza, it is simply a luxury to walk the nighttime successful a adust place,” she told Al Jazeera.

Seguin said Israel was inactive putting up barriers to much-needed assistance entering the enclave. Bringing successful supplies, including tents and medication, was inactive “very complicated”, she said, requiring “even much administrative processes” from the Israeli side.

Netanyahu unsure astir truce duration

Since the commencement of the ceasefire statement past month, astatine slightest 266 radical person been killed and 635 wounded by Israeli attacks, adding to a grim toll present approaching 70,000 deaths.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his furniture connected Sunday that helium did not cognize however agelong the Gaza ceasefire would hold, adding that Israel was inactive expecting the remains of 3 captives to beryllium returned by Hamas.

Hamas’s subject wing, the Qassam Brigades, has been undertaking efforts with the Red Cross to find the remains of captives nether mountains of rubble near down by Israeli bombardment.

Netanyahu besides said that his absorption to a Palestinian authorities had “not changed 1 bit”, 1 time earlier the UN Security Council votes connected a United States-drafted solution mentioning a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood that would mandate an planetary stabilisation unit successful Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israeli unit successful the occupied West Bank continued unabated, with raids connected 2 camps that near 2 young Palestinians dead.

Soldiers changeable Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, a 15-year-old ninth-grade student, arsenic they raided the Far’a camp, located southbound of the metropolis of Tubas successful the West Bank, preventing paramedics from assisting him, according to Palestinian quality bureau Wafa.

Separately, the subject besides killed Hassan Sharkasi during a raid connected the Askar exile campy eastbound of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.