Injured as a result of Israeli shelling in the vicinity of Abu Sharkh roundabout west of Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip
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Waed Association for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners: We express our deep concern over the humanitarian and health conditions experienced by Palestinian prisoners and female prisoners inside the Zionist prisons with the onset of winter and falling temperatures, amid the continued deprivation of blankets, covers, and suitable winter clothing, and the lack of sufficient information about their health and living conditions as a result of the restrictions imposed on visits by families and humanitarian institutions.
Waed Association for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners: ▪We express our deep concern over the humanitarian and health conditions experienced by Palestinian prisoners and female prisoners inside the Zionist prisons with the onset of winter and falling temperatures, amid the continued deprivation of blankets, covers, and suitable winter clothing, and the lack of sufficient information about their health and living conditions as a result of the restrictions imposed on visits by families and humanitarian institutions. ▪The onset of winter for prisoners whose bodies have been exhausted by years of detention and by the starvation, torture, and medical neglect they have been subjected to portends a worsening of their suffering, especially in cold and damp cells that lack the minimum means of heating and protection from the cold, while the sick, the elderly, and those with chronic diseases face greater risks to their health and lives. ▪The continued deprivation of prisoners from essential winter supplies, despite the ability to provide them, reflects a deliberate effort to exacerbate their suffering and turn harsh weather conditions into an additional means of punishment and abuse within the deprivation policies imposed on prisoners over the past years. ▪What further increases the seriousness of the scene is that prisoners' families do not have sufficient information about the condition of their children and do not know whether they are receiving clothing, blankets, and the necessary treatment, while thousands of detainees remain far from independent humanitarian oversight, especially detainees from the Gaza Strip, who suffer compounded isolation and strict restrictions on communication with the outside world. ▪We warn that the continuation of these conditions may lead to the martyrdom of new prisoners, especially among the sick, the wounded, and the elderly, in light of the deaths previously witnessed in prisons, which raised serious concerns about torture, medical neglect, and deprivation of health care. ▪We affirm that cold, poor nutrition, and the absence of treatment are factors that may pose a direct danger to the lives of the most vulnerable detainees. ▪We call on the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene urgently to ensure the entry of blankets, covers, winter clothing, and safe heating means into all prisons and detention centers, to work on visiting prisoners and directly observing their conditions, and to provide urgent medical care to the sick, rather than merely exchanging correspondence or promises in a matter that affects the lives of thousands of detainees. ▪We hold the occupation forces responsible for the safety of the prisoners and for what may result from the continued deprivation of their basic needs. ▪We call on international and human rights institutions to act before new victims fall and to impose independent monitoring of detention conditions, ensure the resumption of family visits, and reveal the conditions of detainees who are hidden from their families. ▪Palestinian prisoners are not only facing winter behind bars; they are facing the cold in bodies worn down by hunger, illness, and deprivation, while their families wait for news that reassures them about their lives. ▪Winter must not turn into a new season of slow death inside prisons, nor should providing a blanket and warm clothing become a humanitarian demand that requires urgent international intervention.
Gaza Ministry of Social Development: Preliminary statistics of the comprehensive field counting operations carried out by our teams due to the recent weather depression
Gaza Ministry of Social Development: ▪Preliminary statistics of the comprehensive field counting operations carried out by our teams due to the recent weather depression: about 18,860 displaced families were affected, distributed across 339 camps in various governorates of the Gaza Strip. ▪Our field teams began, from the first moments of the start of the weather depression, monitoring and assessing the damage and identifying urgent needs for the camps and the affected families in all areas of the Strip to ensure a rapid response and relief intervention. ▪The counting results showed that Gaza Governorate recorded the largest number of affected families, with 8,319 families whose shelters were damaged by rain and strong winds, while the Central Governorate recorded the highest number of affected camps, with 141 camps. ▪As part of immediate interventions to mitigate the severity of the disaster, our field teams, in partnership with relief and humanitarian institutions, carried out a series of urgent responses that included distributing a number of tents and plastic tarps to families who lost their shelter or whose tents were partially or completely damaged, where tents and rain protection materials were distributed to about 298 families and winter clothing to 2,100 people, in addition to other shelter supplies. ▪We stress the continuation of coordination and field work around the clock with all international and local partners to follow up on the provision of urgent interventions and the provision of basic and necessary needs for all affected families. ▪We call on rescue agencies and international institutions to urgently intervene to provide relief, blankets, and protective supplies to protect the displaced from harsh weather conditions.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa: We call on the international community to assume its responsibilities and take practical and effective measures to stop the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, as displaced people enter the fourth winter in dilapidated tents that do not protect them from the cold and rain, amid a lack of the most basic necessities of human life.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa: ▪We call on the international community to assume its responsibilities and take practical and effective measures to stop the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, as displaced people enter the fourth winter in dilapidated tents that do not protect them from the cold and rain, amid a lack of the most basic necessities of human life. ▪Work is under way with international institutions and various partner parties to strengthen relief efforts and provide urgent humanitarian needs. ▪We affirm that the people of the Strip are facing extremely harsh living conditions amid the continuing prevention by the occupation of the entry of humanitarian aid, materials and supplies necessary for shelter and reconstruction, which exacerbates the suffering of the displaced with the arrival of winter and what it brings of cold, rain and risks to their lives. ▪We stress the need to translate international positions into practical steps that ensure the entry of humanitarian aid and shelter materials and the provision of the basic needs of the displaced. ▪The humanitarian catastrophe that continues in the Strip must be brought to an end amid international silence regarding the suffering of more than two million Palestinians.
Gaza Higher Winter Emergency Committee: We express our deep pain over the loss of a number of our people who died last night in the tragic disaster following a sand collapse in the Deir al-Balah area.
Gaza Higher Winter Emergency Committee: ▪We express our deep pain over the loss of a number of our people who died last night in the tragic disaster following a sand collapse in the Deir al-Balah area. ▪We affirm that this disaster is not merely a natural accident, but rather a direct result of the tragic humanitarian reality and the catastrophic conditions imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war of extermination on the Strip. ▪We hold the Israeli occupation fully and directly responsible for this tragedy as a result of the continuing aggression and ongoing blockade, the prevention of reconstruction, the systematic destruction of infrastructure, the targeting of equipment and heavy machinery belonging to Civil Defense and municipalities, and the banning of the entry of rescue equipment, fuel and safety supplies, which has caused residents and displaced people to live in unsafe environments surrounded by danger. ▪We call on the United Nations, the international community, and all humanitarian institutions to intervene immediately and urgently to aid our people and prevent the recurrence of such catastrophic tragedies by pressuring the occupation to allow the entry of heavy equipment, digging and rescue machinery, soil stabilization equipment, in addition to tents and equipped shelter materials that ensure the safety of displaced people and protect them from the dangers of winter and earth collapses. ▪We renew our call to our families and the displaced to exercise the utmost caution and vigilance and to move away immediately from sand dunes and buildings at risk of collapse, especially with changing weather conditions and rainfall, which increase soil liquidity and the danger of collapses. ▪We reaffirm that the continuation of international helplessness in the face of the destruction of the foundations of life in the Gaza Strip exposes the lives of more than two million citizens to death by all means, and we call on everyone to stand by their legal and humanitarian responsibilities before it is too late. ▪We extend our sincerest condolences and sympathy to the families of the martyrs and victims who died in this painful incident, and we ask God to envelop them in His vast mercy, grant them spacious gardens, grant the wounded a speedy recovery, and grant our people near relief.