Fadi Daoud

This is how Israeli President Isaac Herzog was introduced at Chatham House in London.

A child in Gaza stands helpless in the storm, struggling to keep his tent from collapsing amid the lack of safety measures and proper cold-resistant shelters.

An image of Hudhaifa al-Kahlout, known as “Abu Obeida,” head of the Military Media Department and military spokesperson of the al-Qassam Brigades. In a recorded statement, the newly appointed spokesperson of the al-Qassam Brigades announced the killing of Abu Obeida, confirming his death alongside other senior commanders during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

خطاب الوداع لأبو عبيدة

Breaking | Al-Qassam Brigades release an image of senior commander Hudhaifa al-Kahlout, known as “Abu Obeida,” head of the Military Media Department and military spokesperson of the al-Qassam Brigades.

Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis is once again drowning in rainwater due to a harsh winter storm, tearing apart the tents of displaced families and leaving them exposed to the winds.

In Al-Mawasi, Gaza's largest displacement camp west of Khan Younis, displaced people's tents have been blown away amid a new winter storm, compounding the already unbearable conditions.

In Gaza, displaced families helplessly witness seawater inundating their flimsy tents and ruining their possessions, as the Israeli occupation continues to prevent the delivery of mobile homes and essential winter supplies.

Strong winds from the winter storm have torn apart and blown away a large number of displacement tents across various areas of the Gaza Strip.

The suffering of displaced families in the Gaza Strip is intensifying as powerful winds from a severe weather rip through makeshift shelters, uprooting and destroying tents across multiple areas. The Gaza Civil Defense says it is facing extremely harsh humanitarian conditions, with continuous distress calls coming in from displaced Palestinians struggling to survive the storm.

A little girl, left in shock, watched as her family was injured after Israeli occupation forces struck the Al-Awqaf building, which had been sheltering displaced civilians in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of eastern Gaza City, while she searched for other family members.

In a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement, more than 24 Palestinian civilians, including children, were killed and dozens of others injured in sudden Israeli airstrikes that targeted multiple areas across the Gaza Strip.

Breaking | Sources in Hamas told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the Israeli occupation struck an indoor “mini-football” facility inside Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, a well-known spot among residents that is typically crowded at this time of day. The sources rejected the Israeli claims about the nature of the site, stressing that the occupation is once again trying to justify the targeting of civilians and community infrastructure, repeating the same pattern seen in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and southern Lebanon, fabricating narratives to mask deliberate attacks on populated civilian areas.

Amid the storm, a building in Gaza collapsed after its structure was severely weakened by the ongoing Israeli destruction of civilian infrastructure.

Harsh conditions are gripping displaced families living in worn-out tents in Gaza, as heavy rainfall has flooded their flimsy shelters.

“In Khan Younis, Mariam Eslayyeh, in her final month of pregnancy, describes her family’s night of terror as rainwater poured into their makeshift tent. “My body, my unborn baby, and my children are all trembling from the cold” she says, as her husband struggled to keep the flooding water away while they slept.

A Palestinian child cries in the biting cold after winter rains flooded her fragile tent.

Rainwater flooded the tents of displaced families in Gaza, amid the Israeli occupation’s continued failure to uphold its commitments to relief and reconstruction efforts in the Strip.

Breaking | UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said that hundreds of tents and temporary shelters in Gaza have been flooded by rain, leaving thousands of families exposed to harsh weather conditions. He added that Israel has rejected 23 requests to allow nearly 4,000 pallets of essential supplies into Gaza, including much-needed tents.