EU Commissioner Urges Immediate Aid Entry to Gaza After Floods Submerge Thousands of Displaced Families’ Tents
EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib has called for more humanitarian aid to be brought into the Gaza Strip urgently, as the suffering of displaced people worsens after torrential floods submerged more than 70,000 tents in the early hours of the weather depression.
The European Union Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, called for accelerating the entry of more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as living conditions for displaced people deteriorate after torrential floods swept through shelter camps and submerged thousands of tents due to the weather depression.
In a post on the “X” platform on Sunday, Lahbib said displaced families in Gaza are trying to remove water from their tents using pots and cooking utensils after rainwater inundated their shelters, noting that the rainfall has intensified a humanitarian crisis that had already reached unbearable levels.
She stressed that relief teams and humanitarian partners continue their efforts to help those affected despite the harsh weather conditions, emphasizing the need to bring more aid into the Strip urgently to enable them to respond to the mounting needs.
The European official’s call comes as the fallout from the weather depression that struck the Gaza Strip on Friday evening continues, accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds, with forecasts of it receding on Sunday evening, after the weather conditions flooded displacement camps and damaged the shelters of thousands of families.
According to data from the Government Media Office, in the first 12 hours of its impact on the Strip, the depression submerged more than 70,000 displacement tents, in addition to the collapse of dozens of walls damaged by the Israeli genocide war, resulting in injuries, including cases described as serious.
