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Gaza authorities slam ‘complete absence’ of Board of Peace as floods claim lives across Strip
GAZA authorities said today that global inaction over deaths caused by heavy rains in the bombed-out and besieged enclave “shame the conscience of humanity.” Four children and a woman were killed on S
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Four children and a woman were killed on Sunday and two people remain missing after a waterlogged sandbank collapsed onto their tent in Deir el-Balah.
The huge number of displaced people living in tents after their homes were destroyed by Israel’s genocidal invasion are especially vulnerable to floods resulting from the first winter storm of the season, as well as the onset of cold weather. A Palestinian child died from the cold on Sunday in the al-Anan displaced persons camp in Gaza City, medical authorities said.
The Government Media Office in Gaza pointed to the “absolute silence” of the United States and its allies over the humanitarian emergency, and “the complete absence of the Board of Peace and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, as though this catastrophe were of no concern to them.
“Their complete failure to act and their flagrant abdication of the responsibilities entrusted to them raise serious questions about the very purpose of these bodies,” it added.
Save the Children pointed out that the ceasefire agreed in October 2025 stipulated “the entry of caravans as a more durable alternative to tents [but] Israeli authorities have repeatedly blocked their entry into Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands of children exposed to another winter of hardship.”
The Israeli military bars imports of most machinery and tools, meaning rescuers have resorted to digging with their bare hands to try to unearth people trapped by mudslides.
About 70,000 tents were flooded in Gaza over the weekend. The Palestinian Ministry of Construction and Housing said over 2,000 buildings damaged by Israeli bombing are vulnerable to collapse because of the floods. More than 400,000 displaced people live in what are deemed high-risk areas prone to flooding along the coast.
Israeli forces continued to bombard Gaza over the weekend, with drone strikes killing two and injuring at least four, one critically, in Khan Younis and near Jabalia, and artillery bombardment of parts of Gaza City. The Israeli military has killed 1,610 people in Gaza and wounded 5,819 since the so-called ceasefire was signed.