ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Flooding and heavy rain across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours has killed at least 11 people and injured others, according to Palestinian media, as winter storms battered areas already crowded with displaced families.

The Palestinian News Agency reported that five people were killed and others wounded when a house sheltering displaced residents collapsed in the Bir al-Na‘ja area of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

Two more people died after a wall fell onto tents housing displaced families in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, the agency said. A young girl died from the severe cold in Gaza City, while an infant died in the Shati refugee camp. Another man had died a day earlier after a wall collapsed in the same camp.

In central Gaza, two children were injured when their tent collapsed in the Abu Jabal camp in the Omari area. Cold weather also caused the death of an infant inside a displacement tent in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, according to the report.

Heavy rain and flash floods submerged entire displacement camps in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, as well as in Deir al-Balah and the Nuseirat area in central Gaza, worsening already dire living conditions for thousands of displaced people.

On Thursday, Hamas issued a statement accusing Israel of delaying and blocking the entry of essential shelter materials into Gaza, in violation of the humanitarian protocol of the ceasefire agreement. The group said the situation has worsened as winter storms and cold weather hit displacement camps and fragile tents across the territory.

Hamas said Israel bears responsibility for the escalating crisis and urged mediators to pressure Israeli authorities to allow shelter supplies into Gaza and open the Rafah crossing, while calling on regional and international actors to increase pressure to ensure humanitarian commitments are met.