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The Norwegian Refugee Council, which oversees tent supplies in Gaza, says Israel is blocking the entry of life-saving shelter materials for 1.5 million people.
They say Israel's rejected nearly all requests from nine aid groups to bring in tents, sealing kits, bedding and blankets, adding these are urgently needed as Gaza faces its third winter since the start of the war.
UN agencies say people are also struggling to eat enough due to obstacles and red tape.
Israel is only allowing goods to enter through two crossings.
despite saying a third crossing would open, this one for northern Gaza, where famine was declared over the summer.
Israel's military says it's not limiting aid and that hundreds of trucks of goods are entering daily.
It did not respond to further questions.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Israel says it's confirmed the identities of the two hostage bodies.
One was an elder founder of Kibbutz near Oz, an Israeli community near Gaza's border that was attacked by Hamas gunmen on October 7, 2023.
Israel says he was murdered in captivity.
The other hostage returned for burial in Israel was taken from another kibbutz that same day.
The Israeli military says he was murdered during an attempt to rescue him, but provided no further details.
In return, Israel released the bodies of 30 Palestinians on Friday.
Many of the bodies returned by Israel to Gaza in these exchanges have borne signs of torture and execution, according to the health ministry's forensics and photos.
Israel says 11 bodies of hostages still remain in Gaza.
Hamas says it needs time to recover more bodies.
Israel's military says two soldiers were killed in an attack in southern Gaza, sparking a wave of airstrikes that killed Palestinians, many of them women and children, over the weekend.