The displaced people in the Gaza Strip are facing a critical humanitarian situation, as the Civil Defense reported receiving hundreds of distress calls from displaced people whose tents and shelter centers were flooded with rainwater, pleading to save their children.

The Civil Defense explained that their ability to respond is limited, as they can only transfer those affected to alternative locations that are not qualified for shelter in most cases, forcing them to remain outdoors in the rain and extreme cold.

As of Monday, at least 7 children had been killed in Gaza, due to low temperatures, according to medical sources.

The last victim of the severe cold was the one-month-old infant, Jumaa Al-Batran, after his twin Ali was transferred to the intensive care unit of the hospital, before his death, too, was announced, due to a drop in his body temperature.

In a related context, the Gaza municipality warned of the possibility of a health and environmental catastrophe after the sewage pumping station in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood broke down after it was exposed to Israeli bombing, which led to a rise in water levels in the streets.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are crowded into ill-equipped tents, most of which were erected randomly in the western areas of Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis, and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, about fifteen months ago, the population of the Gaza Strip, numbering about 2.4 million people, has suffered from the lack of electricity, potable water, food, and medical services.

Israeli authorities say they have allowed thousands of trucks loaded with food aid, water, medical equipment and shelter supplies to enter Gaza, but international relief agencies say Israeli forces are obstructing the delivery of aid, making the humanitarian crisis there worse.