Hamas says 1 killed by IDF gunfire, 2 by structural collapse over past 48 hours

Hamas’s health ministry says in a 2 p.m. report that Gaza hospitals have received the body of one person killed by IDF gunfire over the past 48 hours, as well as two bodies of Gazans killed before that period.

The ministry does not identify the people or specify where or when they were killed.

Palestinian media reported yesterday that the body of an 11-year-old girl, Dana Muqat, was brought to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital after she was shot dead by the IDF on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line in Gaza City’s eastern Tuffah neighborhood. The IDF has not commented on the reports.

استشهاد الطفلة "دانا حسين مقاط" برصاص الاحتلال الصهيوني في منطقة الزرقا، قرب حي التفاح، شمال شرق مدينة #غزة. pic.twitter.com/RGTxWXvO1d

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Gaza hospitals have also received 10 people wounded by IDF gunfire over the past 48 hours, the Hamas health ministry says. It does not specify where the people were wounded or the severity of their injuries.

In addition, two people, including a 4-year-old girl, have been killed by structural collapse due to heavy rainfall since noon on Monday, according to the Hamas ministry. It does not say where or precisely when they were killed.

Palestinian media reported yesterday that a young girl, Eilaf Barbakh, was killed and three others wounded last night after a wall collapsed on tents housing displaced Palestinians next to the Red Cross hospital near Rafah.

استشهاد طفلة وإصابة عدد من النازحين إثر انهيار جدار على خيام النازحين قرب مستشفى الصليب الأحمر الميداني في مواصي مدينة رفح، جنوب قطاع #غزة pic.twitter.com/9jd2OZq3Jt

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A man was also said to have been killed Monday afternoon from the collapse of a wall on a tent in Tel al-Hawa, in southern Gaza City. The man could not immediately be identified.

In total, 19 Gazans have been killed by structural collapse due to heavy rainfall this winter, the Hamas ministry says.

Hamas’s civil defense agency has warned displaced Palestinian not to shelter from the rain in buildings damaged by bombing.

The UN reported in October that over half of Gaza’s structures were destroyed in the war between Hamas and Israel, and that roughly 40% of the remaining structures are severely or moderately damaged.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans face flooding of their tents and shelters by heavy rains, and aid groups charge that materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave.

COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body that oversees aid to Gaza, has denied the allegations, saying it has let in hundreds of thousands of tents and tarpaulins and is waiting for international organizations to let in close to 100,000 pallets of “water-related items.”