The Turkish Foreign Ministry, in a statement with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, stressed that the heavy rains and storms have exposed the fragility of the humanitarian situation in the sector, especially for the approximately 1.9 million displaced people living in inadequate shelters, warning of increasing risks to the lives of civilians, especially children, women, the elderly and those with medical conditions, as a result of floods, malnutrition and disease outbreaks.
The ministers commended the efforts of UN organizations and agencies, particularly the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and international humanitarian organizations, in providing assistance to Palestinians despite the difficult circumstances, and called on Israel to enable the United Nations and international non-governmental organizations to operate in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in a sustainable and unrestricted manner.
The statement stressed full support for Security Council Resolution 2803 and US President Donald Trump’s comprehensive plan, with the aim of ensuring the sustainability of the ceasefire, ending the war in Gaza, and the need to immediately begin and expand early recovery efforts, including providing decent and permanent shelter for the population to cope with harsh winter conditions, as well as creating a credible path towards enabling the Palestinian people to determine their own destiny and establish their state.
The statement called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and to pressure Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately lift restrictions on the entry and distribution of essential supplies, including tents, shelter materials, medical aid, clean water, fuel and sanitation services, in addition to opening the Rafah crossing in both directions, as stipulated in the comprehensive plan.
On October 7, 2023, Israel began a war of genocide with American support, which lasted for two years, leaving more than 71,000 Palestinian martyrs and 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, and destruction that affected about 90% of the civilian infrastructure. The United Nations estimated the cost of reconstruction at about $70 billion.
The genocide ended with a ceasefire agreement that began on October 10, 2025, which Israel violated about a thousand times with bombing, gunfire and incursions, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of Palestinians.
