A woman sits with children eating inside a camp for displaced Palestinians at a school-turned-shelter in Al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza Cit. AFP
According to Al Jazeera, Israeli troops carried out demolition operations east of Khan Younis and Gaza City on Thursday.
A source at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat said a Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire while collecting firewood east of Al-Bureij camp.
Meanwhile, families across Gaza are bracing for a harsh winter amid warnings that tents are deteriorating and humanitarian conditions are rapidly worsening.
With essential services collapsing and aid remaining scarce, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in worn-out tents no longer able to withstand rain and cold temperatures.
While officials have spoken of expected aid deliveries, local authorities say none of those promises have materialised so far.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said most of its facilities in Gaza City have suffered severe damage.
On Tuesday, the agency reported that around 75,000 displaced Palestinians are sheltering in more than 100 UNRWA buildings across the Gaza Strip, despite many of them being heavily damaged by the war.
In a statement on X, the agency said: “75,000 Palestinians are sheltering in 100 UNRWA buildings, many of them damaged and suffering from extreme overcrowding.”
Since 7 October 2023, Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has killed more than 68,000 Palestinians and injured around 170,000, most of them women and children.
More than 10,000 people remain buried under the rubble, according to the National Committee for Missing Persons in Gaza.
Despite the Gaza ceasefire agreement proposed by US President Donald Trump and signed at the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit for Peace by mediators Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey on 10 October, Israel has continued to carry out strikes across the Gaza Strip, killing more than 250 Palestinians, according to local authorities.
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