Medical sources reported that an unspecified number of injured people, including children, were transferred after the collapse of a wall of a house damaged by previous Israeli bombing during the war of extermination, in the Al-Mawasi area, northwest of Rafah city.
Later, a child (Elaf Barabakh, 3 years old) died from injuries sustained when the wall collapsed, according to a medical source, bringing the number of martyrs due to the weather depressions since the beginning of December to 26 people.
Civil defense officials in Gaza announced on Monday that 25 people, including six children, had died from the extreme cold. Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a statement that 18 residential buildings, already damaged by previous Israeli airstrikes, had completely collapsed due to the effects of the storms and heavy rains during the same period.
More than 110 residential buildings have suffered "serious" partial collapses, posing a direct threat to the lives of thousands of Palestinians living in or around them, according to Basal.
Recently, incidents of dilapidated and crumbling buildings collapsing have become frequent in Gaza due to severe weather conditions, resulting in deaths and injuries. Palestinians are forced to live in these dilapidated and crumbling buildings due to a lack of alternatives, as Israel has destroyed most of the buildings in the Gaza Strip.
In a related context, the Israeli occupation army carried out demolition operations on Tuesday against residential buildings east of Gaza City and in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery also shelled areas east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, according to eyewitnesses. In Rafah, the Israeli army demolished residential buildings, while its helicopters fired heavily on various areas.
On Tuesday, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli army fire in the Al-Zarqa area of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Calls to lift restrictions on aid
Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh welcomed on Tuesday a call by 10 Western countries to Israel to lift restrictions "immediately" on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
This comes after a joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, in which they expressed their "deep concern" about the catastrophic levels of the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
According to the statement, those countries called on the Israeli government to lift the restrictions imposed on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The statement also welcomed the emphasis by those countries on the need to allow international organizations, foremost among them the United Nations, to operate in a sustainable and regular manner to provide relief.
The joint statement from the ten countries indicated that, as winter approached, 1.3 million people in the Gaza Strip still urgently needed shelter. The statement also warned of the risk of sanitation infrastructure collapse, which would expose some 740,000 people to toxic floodwater, given that only half of the sanitation facilities were partially operational.
Despite the end of the genocide with the entry into force of the ceasefire on October 10, 2025, living conditions havenot seen significant improvement, due to Israel’s failure to fulfill its obligations, including the entry of the agreed quantities of food, relief, medical supplies and mobile homes.
On October 8, 2023, Israel began a two-year genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 71,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 171,000 wounded, and massive destruction affecting 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
