Gaza shelter supplies meet only four percent of needs, media office says
The Government Media Office in Gaza says the territory faces a shelter deficit of more than 96 percent, leaving the southern governorates unable to accommodate the 1.3 million Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced.
It said only about 10,000 tents have entered Gaza since Israel announced the entry of shelter supplies, the equivalent to just four percent of the 250,000 tents and caravans required.
“This number reflects the extent of manipulation and procrastination in responding to urgent humanitarian needs,” the office said in a statement. The media office added that no tents or shelter supplies are currently available at the crossings due to restrictions imposed by Israel on the work of international organisations.
It warned that there are no safe spaces for further displacement, as the Israeli army controls about 77 percent of Gaza’s territory, making any new displacement “nearly impossible” and threatening the lives of those already forced from their homes.
A displaced Palestinian boy tries to salvage items from a damaged tent, following an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 23
Israeli army releases 13 Palestinians taken from Gaza in recent months
The Israeli military has released 13 mostly young Palestinians who were taken from across Gaza by soldiers during the past three months or less. They were released from the notorious Sde Teiman military prison, and delivered by the Red Cross to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
The Israeli army regularly detains Palestinians, many of them young men and children, as it expands its occupation of the enclave. Some 3,500 people from Gaza are currently believed to be held in Israeli army centres, according to the Prisoners’ Media Office.
Many released prisoners have recounted being subjected to systematic torture, abuse and starvation.
#شاهد | استقبلت عائلات الأسرى الفلسطينيين المحررين في دير البلح وسط قطاع غزة، بعد الإفراج عن 13 أسيرًا عبر الصليب الأحمر من سجون الاحتلال. pic.twitter.com/27fLdXnsRB
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) August 24, 2025
Translation: The families of the released Palestinian prisoners received them in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, after the release of 13 prisoners through the Red Cross from the occupation’s prisons.
