{"id":80347,"date":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/gaza-un-reports-expanded-winterisation-efforts-as-cold-weather-intensifies\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","slug":"gaza-un-reports-expanded-winterisation-efforts-as-cold-weather-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=80347","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: UN reports expanded winterisation efforts as cold weather intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>More than 230,000 families \u2013 that\u2019s around 1.15 million people \u2013 received monthly food parcels between 1 and 27 November, through 59 distribution points, including 21 in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Shelter partners distributed over 8,800 blankets and more than 300 tents, with additional tarpaulins and mattresses arriving this week.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Flood risk<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Site management teams warn that flooding remains a major risk. Sandbags have been deployed to 41 displacement sites, while cash-for-work teams have been reinforcing drainage and collect empty flour sacks to improve insulation.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, UN-coordinated aid entering Gaza included <strong>dignity kits, menstrual health items, medical supplies and adolescent kits<\/strong> \u2013 though road damage and limited transport continue to restrict access, especially in the north.<\/p>\n<p>Protection partners say <strong>gender-based violence services<\/strong> reached 671 women and girls in one day last week, with new tents allowing safe spaces to reopen after flood damage.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing reporters in New York on Monday, UN Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said humanitarian conditions remain extremely dire even as aid operations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ramiz Alakbarov, has just finished a fact-finding mission to Gaza, stressing the importance of unfettered humanitarian access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, our partners leading the health response report that they continue to restore services across the Strip \u2013 with <strong>234 health service points now operational, compared to 197 before the ceasefire<\/strong>,\u201d Mr. Dujarric added.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Shelter needs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Shelter needs are still high, with some <strong>1.5 million people in need of urgent support<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, 160 high-performance tents arrived in Gaza for learning activities \u2013 the biggest influx so far. However, stationary and other school supplies are still not being allowed into Gaza, Mr. Dujarric warned, hampering efforts to scale up the response.<\/p>\n<p>Around 123,000 families have received cash assistance since the fragile truce began \u2013 exceeding the target of 120,000 under the 60-day ceasefire plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2025\/12\/1166479\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 230,000 families \u2013 that\u2019s around 1.15 million people \u2013 received monthly food parcels between&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2944,936,5521,190,1189,1031,1893,8265],"class_list":["post-80347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-cold","tag-efforts","tag-expanded","tag-gaza","tag-intensifies","tag-reports","tag-weather","tag-winterisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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