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<\/p>\n\n Severe weather conditions over the past 72 hours in Gaza have left 14 people dead, including three children, the director general of the Gaza-based Health Ministry Munir Al-Boursh told CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n Over the past two years, many Palestinians were left with no option but to move into tents and temporary shelters amid the devastating war that left much of the enclave in ruins.\n <\/p>\n
\n Tents flooded with water and Palestinians were left \u201cwading through sewage, mud and debris with no proper shelter,\u201d aid group, Oxfam, said in a statement Saturday, adding that the difficult conditions are a \u201cdirect result of the systematic obstruction of aid.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Palestinians pleaded for help amid the cold weather and rain that\u2019s left their belongings soaked and destroyed.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe mattress, the blanket, everything, even the clothes, have become soaked with water. \u2026 Bring me a mattress. Bring me a tent. I beg you, for God\u2019s sake, help me,\u201d Um Mustafa told CNN on Friday.\n <\/p>\n
\n She said the only food she had left, a bag of flour and rice, were ruined after they were soaked with water leaving her panicking in the middle of the night.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI went out screaming to the neighbors, asking them for help,\u201d she said. \u201cAll my children became soaked by the rainwater.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Tents, temporary shelters and even buildings, weakened by Israeli bombardment during the war, collapsed while families were inside, according to authorities and Palestinians in Gaza. An eight-month-old baby named Rahaf died of hypothermia, her family told CNN.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n \u2060More than 27,000 tents were swept away and flooded, the Hamas-run government media office said in a statement. The \u201dcomplex humanitarian disaster\u201d has affected at least 250,000 people, the media office said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n \n Israel and Hamas reached a truce in October, allowing the release of all living Israeli hostages and bringing the two-year war to a halt. Israel allowed aid into Gaza to implement the first stage of the agreement.\n <\/p>\n \n But Oxfam said Israeli authorities \u201ccontinue to block the entry of basic shelter materials, fuel and water infrastructure,\u201d which is leaving people exposed to \u201centirely preventable harm.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWhen access is denied, storms become deadly. This suffering is being manufactured by policy, not weather,\u201d the group said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n \n The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli agency tasked with facilitating aid distribution in Gaza, said in a statement that Israel is \u201ccommitted to\u201d and \u201cfully upholds\u201d its \u201cobligation to transfer humanitarian aid trucks in accordance with the agreement.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIn this framework, hundreds of trucks enter each day carrying food, water, fuel, gas, medicines, medical equipment, tents and shelter equipment,\u201d the agency said. \u201cOver the last few months, COGAT coordinated with the international community and facilitated the transfer of close to 270,000 tents and tarpaulins directly to the residents of the Gaza Strip.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe are planning a catered humanitarian response for the upcoming winter,\u201d COGAT said.\n <\/p>\n