The rain and cold constitute a new "catastrophic situation," said civil defense spokesman Ahmed Radwan, CNN reports.
The UN agency UNRWA's top director, Philippe Lazzarini, also describes the situation:
"More rain. More human suffering, despair and death. Harsh winter weather exacerbates more than two years of suffering. People in Gaza survive in fragile, waterlogged tents and among ruins," he writes in a statement on X.
Palestinians seek shelter from the rain in bombed-out buildings that are at high risk of collapsing. Since the beginning of winter, at least 49 buildings have collapsed and 20 people have died, according to the Hamas-led government.
On Sunday, two people were reported to have been killed when a wall collapsed, one of them a child.
