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Strong winter winds brought walls down onto flimsy tents housing Palestinians displaced by war in Gaza, killing no fewer than 4 people. These deaths highlights the dangerous living conditions that persist after more than 24 months of intense bombardment and critical lack of humanitarian assistance.

Ceasefire Provides Little Respite from Harsh Elements

Although a ceasefire has been active from October, aid groups state that Palestinians broadly lack the adequate shelter required to withstand recurring cold-weather events.

Officials at Shifa hospital, which took in the victims, reported on Tuesday that the deceased include two women, a girl, and a male adult.

Separately, the Gaza health ministry announced on Tuesday that a 12-month-old infant succumbed of hypothermia during the night.

"International actors has enabled us to witness death in every possible way," said Bassel Hamouda following the burial. "It’s true the bombing may have temporarily stopped, but we have witnessed every conceivable cause of death in the world in the Gaza Strip."

Family Buried in Tent Collapse

As per the medical center, 3 members of a one household — elderly a man, his 15-year-old relative, and his son's wife — were fatally injured when an 26-foot high wall fell onto their dwelling in a area near the sea of Gaza City. No fewer than five others were hurt in the incident.

Family members on that day started clearing the debris that had entombed their family and rebuilding the temporary homes for those who remained.

Humanitarian Distribution and Ongoing Emergency

United Nations agencies and its aid organization allies were handing out tents, plastic sheeting, warm covers and clothes as well as nutrition and sanitation items across Gaza, said the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs.

The majority of the population live in improvised tents since their homes were reduced to rubble during the war. Aid groups say an insufficient amount of shelter materials are entering Gaza under the truce.

Casualty Figures After the Ceasefire

Local health authorities, which is part of the administration, reports more than 440 individuals have been killed by gunfire and their remains taken to hospitals since the ceasefire began. The authority keeps detailed casualty records that are seen as largely accurate by international bodies and outside analysts.

A spokesperson for UNICEF, spokesperson for the UN children's fund, stated on that day that no fewer than one hundred minors under the age of 18 – 60 boys and 40 females – had been lost their lives since the truce began due to armed actions, such as drone strikes, airstrikes, tank shelling and use of live ammunition. Those figures, he explained, represented incidents where enough information had been gathered to justify documentation, but the overall count is expected to be greater. He noted that hundreds of children had been injured.

"Although 'bombings and shootings have decreased' under the truce, they have not ceased," the spokesperson informed reporters at a press conference in the Swiss city by video link from Gaza City. "Therefore what the world now calls quiet would be considered a crisis in any other place," he said.

Third Cold Season of Hardship

Gaza’s residents of more than 2 million people has been fighting to keep the freezing temperatures and storms at bay while facing lack of assistance and a lack of sturdier transitional shelter, which is badly needed during the colder season. This marks the 3rd cold season after the conflict between the state and the group started on 7 October 2023, when militants stormed into Israeli territory and killed approximately twelve hundred people and abducted two hundred and fifty-one others into Gaza.

Gaza’s health ministry reports over 71,400 Palestinians have been fatally injured in the subsequent retaliatory offensive.