🔥 Future on Fire 🔥

🇵🇸 Two baby girls, 4-month-old Habiba Zannoun and 7-month-old Esel Abu Suhaiban, died when a fire broke out in a tent sheltering displaced families in al-Mawasi, the coastal displacement zone in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to Palestinian journalist Hani al-Shaer, who filmed the aftermath. Displacement tents lack even basic safety protections, and Israel's continued restrictions on fuel and cooking gas have forced families to rely on primitive and dangerous methods to heat their shelters and cook, al-Shaer reported. Israel has kept mobile homes out of Gaza throughout the war, now in its fourth year, and is still blocking them, along with new tents, 13 months into the ceasefire, said Mohammed Abu Afash, director of Gaza's Medical Relief Society. Egypt sent mobile homes to the Rafah crossing in February 2025, but Israel refused to let them in. About half of Gaza's tents and shelters are in "bad or very bad condition," and winter shelter supplies cover just 17% of the needs of the roughly 2 million people who need shelter, the UN's migration agency said this month.