Two people have died as a result of heavy rains in Gaza and the tents of many displaced persons have been flooded

It's been a tough winter in the Gaza Strip and a 30-year-old woman and a seven-year-old have died in the last few hours from heavy rains. 

According to Gaza Civil Defense rescue teams, heavy storms knocked down a wall and both the woman and the baby fell into a well, where they both drowned and dozens of displaced tents were flooded. 

Civil Defense teams have been working in the last few hours to help people living in tents that have been hit by floods, thousands of people living in tents like this all over the Strip after Israel destroyed their homes.

Civil Defense personnel have also had to rescue a Red Crescent vehicle that was trapped in the mud by the rain and remain on high alert, as heavy rains are expected both Sunday and Monday.

The Gaza Government says that only 41% of the agreed aid comes in, and Israel says that this is not the case.

On the other hand, the Gaza Government has accused Israel of "slowly killing" its citizens by allowing only 41% of the humanitarian aid promised to enter, despite the fact that the truce has already lasted 80 days. According to the Israeli authorities, all trucks agreed during the truce have been allowed in.

The Gazatis have reported that in 80 days only 19,764 aid trucks have entered, of the 48,000 that were to enter (41%), "about 250 per day when an average of 600 were to enter", they say. "This has led to a continuing serious shortage of food, medicines, water and fuel, and has aggravated the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip", they have said.

In addition, they have reported that since the entry into force of the ceasefire on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed 418 Palestinians and injured 1,141 others, committing "serious and systematic violations of the agreement".

Attacks on the West Bank

Meanwhile, in the north of the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces arrested 50 people yesterday, 47 of whom were later released (except a father and his two children), attacked 50 houses and occupied a school during the raid on the city of Qabatiya, following the murder of an Israeli man and a teenager.

According to official Palestinian agency Wafa, the Israeli army closed access to the city and imposed a full curfew from Friday night until early Sunday morning.

On the other hand, Israeli settlers burned an SUV in the early morning hours of Sunday in the town of Huwara, south of the Palestinian city of Nablus, and wrote racist messages. They also tried to set fire to another vehicle, but the locals intervened and prevented it from burning.

At the same time, in western Bethlehem (also in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank), a group of Israeli settlers have burned another vehicle in the village of Jabaa.

Violent attacks of this kind have become increasingly common in the West Bank, and dozens of Palestinian villages around the enlarged illegal colonies have been partially or completely abandoned since 7 October 2023.

Police and judicial institutions have been accused on several occasions of not doing much in the face of the violence of settlers.  The settlers also receive state subsidies and water and electricity services if they move to the occupied territories.

Netanyahu is on his way to America to meet Donald Trump tomorrow.

On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is on his way to the US, tomorrow in Florida, to meet US President Donald Trump, according to spokespersons for his office.

It will be the fifth time that the Republican leader has met since his return to the White House in January and, although it is not a public agenda, it is expected to move towards the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza and discuss the threat from Iran and Hezbollah.