Children Will Drown Without Shelter, Gaza Aid Coordinator Warns

🔴 “Gaza Needs Mobile Homes Now”: Aid Coordinator Warns Children Will Drown Without Shelter

Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi urges mobile homes and caravans to enter Gaza without delay as storms flood displacement camps and families wade through sewage and mud. “If Gaza flooded six times during the first phase of the ceasefire, that means we will drown dozens of times in the second phase while Gaza has no shelter at all,” Amawi says, warning that children will die from cold and exposure.

More than 1.3 million displaced Palestinians urgently need shelter, according to UNRWA, which says supplies for that population are sitting just outside Gaza, blocked by Israel. The UN reports shelter materials have reached around 4,000 families in recent days—only a fraction of what’s needed.

Oxfam says this is not a failure of “preparedness or capacity” but the direct result of “systematic obstruction.” By blocking basic shelter materials, fuel, and water infrastructure, Israel is turning predictable storms into deadly events. “This suffering is being manufactured by policy, not weather.”