What changed
The Board of Peace has publicly said Israel’s response to flooding in Gaza is insufficient and urged the immediate entry of humanitarian supplies. Rain flooded tens of thousands of tents; three children and a woman were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto tents. Israel says more than 91,000 tents and over 8,200 trucks carrying winter supplies have entered Gaza.
Why it matters
This is a crisis of shelter, not just weather. About 1.4 million people are living in tents or makeshift shelters, while the UN says essential winter and shelter stocks inside Gaza have run out. OCHA says more than 150,000 tents are waiting outside the territory.
The political significance is unusually sharp: the US-backed body overseeing the Gaza peace plan has criticised Israel while saying delays in approving supplies worsened a foreseeable humanitarian emergency and slowed the transfer of Hamas authority to a transitional government.
Israel says reconstruction can begin only after Hamas disarms. Hamas rejects responsibility for the delays and says Israeli restrictions are blocking materials needed for shelter and recovery. The immediate uncertainty is whether the remaining tents and sanitation supplies will be allowed in quickly enough to protect people whose shelters have already failed.
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