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SvennoJ on 06 November 2025
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Displaced people in Gaza sheltering in ‘unsafe’ buildings

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says most of its facilities in Gaza City have “sustained heavy damage” from two years of Israeli attacks. Many other facilities that Palestinians are taking shelter in across the Strip are also severely damaged and “unsafe”, according to UNRWA.

“Returning families also face the risk of unexploded ordnance,” it warned.


‘People who have tents are lucky’

Shaina Low, communication adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says even basic tents are a rare commodity for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in war-battered Gaza.

“Many people do not even have tents,” she told Al Jazeera. “The people who have tents in Gaza are the ones who are lucky.” People’s immediate needs are so great that aid workers are not even able to start planning for broader reconstruction, she added.

“We’re just calling for the entry of emergency shelter supplies like tents, like tarpaulins … which will provide the minimal amount of shelter for the winter,” said Low. “We haven’t even been able to prepare or plan for the long term.”


A tent city in Khan Younis, southern Gaza


Italy evacuates children from Gaza in urgent need of medical care

The Italian defence ministry says it has evacuated children from Gaza who are in urgent need of medical care.

“Behind every mission like this there are faces, names, stories: children who have known suffering too early and who today find in Italy an outstretched hand, a safe place, a concrete possibility of care and of a future,” a statement quoting Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said.

Since October 2023, the World Health Organization has supported the medical evacuation of 8,006 patients from Gaza abroad. More than 16,500 patients still need medical treatment outside the war-devastated territory, the UN agency says.