Arabic version: عاصفة تغمر خيام غزة فيما يتصاعد العنف في الضفة الغربية
According to Al Jazeera, the first major storm of the season flooded about 70,000 tents in Gaza within 12 hours, killing at least five people and causing about $3m in damage. By Monday, Gaza’s Civil Defence had recorded more than 2,100 distress calls and warned that more than 2,000 buildings were at risk of collapse.
Nearly 400,000 displaced people are sheltering in areas considered highly vulnerable. Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel was blocking 60,000 mobile homes and 200,000 tents while allowing 20,000 tents into the territory, where about 85 percent of homes have been destroyed or damaged during Israel’s three-year war.
Gaza’s Crossings and Borders Authority said no aid trucks or commercial goods entered on November 6 and 7, while five cooking-gas trucks arrived the following day. OCHA said Israel notified the United Nations on November 1 that it would suspend shipments from Egypt. Aid groups warned that daily cooked meals could fall from about 600,000 to 330,000.
In the West Bank, a reported settler takeover of eight Palestinian homes near Jericho on November 4 coincided with a wider increase in attacks, demolitions and closures. OCHA counted 377 harvest-related attacks since September 1. It documented 457 attacks causing casualties or damage in October, the highest monthly total since its records began in 2006.
Palestinian sources reported olive-grove fires in Burqa, attacks on farmers near Salfit, Silwad and Tayasir, and demolitions in the northern Jordan Valley, Biddu and near Dura. Israeli political negotiations also continued after President Isaac Herzog gave opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot a mandate to form a government, with Arab-led parties potentially holding significant influence.
