The United Arab Emirates announced that its humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has reached $4.16 billion since November 2023, about 46% of total international humanitarian aid to the Strip during the same period. It said this came within Operation Al-Faris Al-Shahm 3, launched on 5 November 2023, with more than 131,000 tons of aid sent, including food, medicine, medical equipment and essential consumer goods, in addition to operating hospitals, water desalination plants and bakeries, rehabilitation projects, and transporting aid via an air and sea bridge.
Amid the governmental vacuum, the Hebrew page Tzvika Hezkeli reported that clan leadership is growing in Gaza, noting that families are turning to this model. Yesterday, elections were held in Khan Younis to choose the mukhtar of the Al-Astal family, one of the largest and most prominent clans in the southern Gaza Strip.
In the security sphere, the Hebrew site Walla revealed that the Israeli security establishment is adopting an unprecedented restrictive policy in the Gaza Strip, including refraining from assassinating mayors for fear of the collapse of municipal systems and the spread of civil chaos into Israel. It quoted military sources saying that international relief organizations will not be able to fill the vacuum, while the Israeli government opposes the Palestinian Authority entering the Strip and demands a third party to administer it instead of Hamas.
On the health front, the spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health told Al Jazeera that last month recorded the highest number of injuries since the ceasefire in the Strip.