UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that more than 13,000 families in the Gaza Strip were affected by the recent winter storm.
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Dujarric added in press remarks on Monday that UN efforts to deliver assistance in Gaza remain restricted due to the insufficient level of essential supplies allowed into the Strip.
He called for enabling the United Nations to meet the immense needs across the entire territory.
Earlier on Monday, the Government Media Office in Gaza stated that the Israeli occupation is causing a “tragic shelter catastrophe,” exacerbating an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the Strip, noting that displaced families are facing the winter without protection.
In a statement, the office warned that Gaza is witnessing an unparalleled humanitarian disaster, with more than 288,000 Palestinian families enduring severe hardship amid harsh weather conditions and the lack of basic living necessities.
It stressed that the flooding of tens of thousands of tents—sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people—during the first storm of this winter is a scene that reflects the depth of the suffering and the international community’s failure to provide essential shelter supplies.
The office noted that Gaza needs 300,000 tents and mobile homes to secure the minimum humanitarian housing requirements, “yet the world has not acted as needed.”
According to the Government Media Office, the occupation continues its policy of restrictions, preventing the entry of tents, tarpaulins, and plastic covers, keeping Gaza’s crossings closed, and stalling the implementation of the ceasefire agreement.
It pointed out that the occupation is evading its commitments under the humanitarian protocol related to the situation in Gaza, “attempting to impose new forms of genocide by deepening the humanitarian disaster.”
The office described the occupation’s insistence on fully closing Gaza’s crossings and preventing the entry of shelter supplies as a “catastrophic crime.”
It called on U.S. President Donald Trump, the mediating countries, and the guarantors of the “Gaza Agreement” to take serious and immediate action to compel the occupation to comply with the ceasefire agreement and the protocol concerning the humanitarian situation.
