Gaza's Government Media Office has announced an "urgent emergency plan" to evacuate and demolish 255 buildings severely damaged during Israel's genocidal war that are considered to be at imminent risk of collapse.
Led by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing alongside local institutions and international United Nations bodies, the measure follows multiple structural failures across the enclave.
These include the collapse on Wednesday of the Al-Saada building in Gaza City, which killed 21 Palestinians.
The media office stated the operation aims to remove the "imminent danger" facing displaced families and residents sheltering inside structurally compromised homes.
Field teams have been instructed to erect warning cordons around designated hazards and coordinate temporary alternative shelter.
Acute shortages
Specialised engineering committees are conducting assessments to catalogue vulnerable structures and register families remaining inside.
However, officials warned the initiative faces severe operational hurdles, including a critical lack of humanitarian funding, acute shortages of heavy machinery and demolition equipment resulting from the Israeli blockade, and an absence of cleared land to rehouse displaced residents.
On Wednesday, the housing ministry confirmed that approximately 3,000 structures across Gaza have been classified as dangerous or at risk of collapse.
Widespread residential devastation has forced thousands of civilians to remain in fractured buildings due to a severe absence of viable housing alternatives.
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, at least 61 Palestinians have died in collapses of war-damaged buildings.
Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, dozens of unstable structures have collapsed on families left without alternative shelter amid shortages of suitable tents and Israeli restrictions barring the entry of prefabricated modular units.
Repeated international appeals to permit essential shelter materials into the enclave to avert further fatalities have received no response from Israeli authorities.
Since October 2023, Israeli genocide has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, wounded over 174,000, and damaged or destroyed an estimated 90 percent of Gaza's infrastructure.
