Early Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation army launched airstrikes and artillery shelling on various parts of eastern Gaza, within the areas it controls under the ceasefire agreement.
This comes as a new breach of the agreement that came into effect on October 10th.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli aircraft launched heavy airstrikes on various parts of eastern Gaza City, coinciding with artillery shelling targeting the area.
They said that Israeli military vehicles shelled various areas northeast of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and fired indiscriminately and heavily towards the area.
Thousands of tents flooded
Meanwhile, hundreds of tents were blown away by a stormy low-pressure system that has been hitting the Gaza Strip since Monday evening.
This is the second depression to hit the Gaza Strip in less than a week, after the polar depression “Biron” caused the death of 14 Palestinians, and damaged and flooded about 53,000 tents completely or partially, which increased the suffering of the residents.
Rainwater leaked into sections inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, particularly the reception and emergency department, which disrupted work there.
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, and it suffered extensive damage from bombing and burning during the Israeli war of extermination. The Ministry of Health in Gaza has been trying to restore some of its buildings during the past two months following the implementation of the ceasefire agreement on October 10, 2025.
However, the large scale of the destruction and the lack of resources, in addition to Israel’s obstruction of the entry of medical supplies, equipment and medicines, prevents the hospital from resuming normal operations.
In this context, eyewitnesses said that thousands of tents belonging to displaced people were flooded by rainwater or blown away by strong winds, forcing thousands of Palestinians to spend the night in the open.
Palestinian Khaled Abdel Aziz explained that he and his family woke up to strong winds that tore down their tent and caused all their belongings to be blown away, adding: "We are now out in the open in the rain, and there is nowhere for us to go."
Palestinian Maha Abu Jazar was also seen trying to flee with her three children without a specific destination, after rainwater completely flooded her tent in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to witnesses, hundreds of Palestinians sought shelter under the rubble and parts of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, fleeing the rain and cold.
Thousands without homes
For his part, Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, warned of the risk of thousands of homes partially damaged by Israeli bombing collapsing as a result of heavy rains and strong winds.
Basal said in a statement that these buildings pose a great danger to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who cannot find safe shelter, noting that repeated warnings have been made to the international community without response.
During the previous storm, official data reported that at least 13 damaged buildings collapsed on top of their residents who had taken refuge in them to protect themselves from the rain and cold.
This comes as Israel reneges on its obligations under the ceasefire agreement and humanitarian protocol, including the entry of shelter materials, 300,000 tents and mobile homes, as confirmed by the Government Media Office in Gaza.
Since October 8, 2023, Israel has continued its war of extermination on the Gaza Strip with American support, resulting in more than 70,000 martyrs and about 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to the destruction of about 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure.
