UNRWA shelters 70,000 displaced Palestinians in Gaza
UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with providing aid to Palestinians, says 70,000 Palestinians currently reside in 70 shelters it’s operating across the war-shattered Gaza Strip.
One of the organisation’s representatives told Al Jazeera that about 8,000 teachers have begun work again in Gaza since the slowdown in Israeli strikes brought about by the fragile, US-brokered ceasefire a few weeks ago.
There is widespread damage across the #Gaza Strip, unstable structures, and unexploded ordnance.
UNRWA currently runs over 70 shelters, where tens of thousands of forcibly displaced people are living.
Our teams continue to work tirelessly to keep shelters running and to help… pic.twitter.com/sNSSxANCfn
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 2, 2025
Gaza media office calls US CENTCOM looting allegations ‘fabricated’
The Gaza Government Media Office has refuted accusations by the US Central Command that Hamas fighters looted an aid-carrying vehicle after the release of a video of the alleged incident.
US CENTCOM published what it said was drone footage on Saturday showing “suspected Hamas elements” commandeering an aid truck in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
“We affirm that this accusation is completely false and fabricated from its very foundation, and comes within the framework of a systematic media disinformation campaign aimed at distorting the image of the Palestinian police forces, which are carrying out their national and humanitarian duty in securing aid and protecting relief convoys,” a media office statement said.
“The police system is making every effort to control matters despite the continued ‘Israeli’ meddling in the internal arena, with several objectives including engineering starvation by obstructing the delivery of aid.”
Palestinian man killed in Israeli drone attack on Gaza’s Shujayea area
A Palestinian man has been killed in an Israeli drone attack on the Shujayea neighbourhood east of Gaza City, according to a source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
Both Shujayea and the nearby Zeitoun area have been subjected to building demolitions by the Israeli army since the morning. Since the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 11, at least 226 people have been killed in Israeli attacks and another 594 wounded.
The overall death toll has risen to 68,858 killed, with 170,664 injured, since October 7, 2023.
Two more bodies pulled from collapsed building in Gaza City
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says it has retrieved the remains of two more Palestinians from under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in western Gaza City.
The effort to retrieve Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes whose bodies are trapped beneath mounds of rubble across Gaza has been hampered by the lack of heavy machinery needed for the grim task.
Ahmed Radwan, the Civil Defence agency’s media officer in Rafah in southern Gaza, told Al-Aqsa TV that more than 10,000 Palestinian bodies remain trapped under the debris caused by two years of Israeli bombardments.
The heavily damaged Jabalia neighbourhood in Gaza City
Casualty toll: Israeli attacks kill 236, wound 600 since Gaza truce began
Since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect last month, at least 236 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks and another 600 wounded.
Over the last 24 hours, hospitals across Gaza reported the deaths of three people, and received three more bodies from underneath the rubble of collapsed buildings. One person died at a hospital from wounds sustained in attacks, the Health Ministry said.
