“Today, we have woken up to the news that three children have died due to the severe cold in Gaza,” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Khan Younis, Gaza.

The Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement has allowed more than 600,000 Palestinians to return to their original towns and villages. They returned to find nothing but areas that are uninhabitable.

“Currently, I am in the city of Khan Younis surrounded by destruction as families live in the remains of destroyed residential buildings. And children live inside these buildings without any type of essential humanitarian facilities, including electricity, water and sanitation.

“That is why mobile homes and shelters are highly required by the Palestinian faction in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement,” he said.

But Israel, until now, has not allowed a sufficient number of mobile shelters and tents to enter the Gaza Strip, he added.

“Families have been using makeshift tents for more than one and a half years, and now they live in open spaces. In particular, children and the elderly have been left vulnerable to facing the cold weather in Gaza.”