UN Reports Over 13,000 Gaza Families Struggling Amid Blockade and Floods

While Gaza reels from relentless conflict, an unfolding humanitarian crisis now threatens thousands more innocent families—not from combat, but from nature compounded by political obstruction. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently disclosed that over 13,000 Palestinian families have been severely impacted by heavy rains flooding already devastated areas within the Gaza Strip.Despite rapid responses from UN teams distributing tents, tarps, and blankets to those displaced by Israeli airstrikes, these efforts are being strangled by stringent Israeli controls on aid entry—controls reportedly justified by Israel's insistence that Hamas return the bodies of remaining hostages. This...