At least eleven people have died in Gaza as a powerful winter storm destroys homes and tents, leaving thousands of displaced residents trapped amid flooding, extreme cold, and collapsing infrastructure.
In Beit Lahia and Gaza City, a collapsed house in the Bir al-Na’ja area killed five people and injured others who were seeking shelter there. In another incident in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood, two people died when a large wall fell onto refugee tents at dawn.
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Extreme cold claimed the life of a child and a baby in the Al-Shati camp, while another resident had already died from a collapsing wall in the same camp. In Abu Jabal, two children were injured when their tent gave way, and a baby died in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, as freezing temperatures took their toll.
Civil Defense teams reported that at least ten houses have collapsed in recent hours, including two in Al-Karama and Sheikh Radwan. Entire camps in Al-Mawasi were flooded, and large sections of Al-Bassa and Al-Baraka in Deir al-Balah, the Central Market of Nuseirat, and the Yarmouk and Al-Mina areas of Gaza City suffered severe damage.
Hosni Muhanna, spokesperson for the Gaza municipality, told Al Mayadeen that the situation is “catastrophic” and worsened by rain mixed with sewage. He stressed the urgent need to reopen crossings, pointing out that tents have become a source of suffering and that response teams are working with limited equipment.
In #Gaza, winter rains are falling, once again, bringing new hardships.
Flooded streets and soaked tents are making already dire living conditions even more dangerous.
Cold, overcrowded, and unsanitary environments heighten the risk of illness and infection.
This suffering… pic.twitter.com/U3Sub8oqgX
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) December 11, 2025
Officials also warned that more homes could collapse due to structural cracks and poor resilience to storms. The Khan Yunis camps were described as “extremely catastrophic”, with hundreds of thousands living in tents.
Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said the humanitarian crisis is deepening, adding that “those who survived Israeli bombings are now dying from cold and oppression.” He urged displaced families living in damaged homes to evacuate immediately if any cracks are visible, calling the situation a “true disaster.”
The United Nations reports that after two years of a Zionist genocidal campaign, “most of Gaza’s roughly two million residents are living in makeshift shelters,” prompting humanitarian workers to “deliver assistance to communities in flood-prone areas” during the winter.
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