Gaza camps drown under winter storm
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Heavy rain and strong winds collapse tents and damage buildings, leading to deaths and injuries amid plummeting temperatures.
One by one, the soldiers squeezed through a narrow entrance to a tunnel in southern Gaza. Inside a dark hallway, some bowed their heads to avoid hitting the low ceiling, while watching their step as they walked over or around jagged concrete,
Medical source tells Anadolu that a Palestinian man, who was identified as Mahmoud Shubeir, was killed after a concrete wall collapsed on him in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City - Anadolu A
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Rains drenched Gaza's tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as a winter storm descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two months of a ceasefire have failed to sufficiently address the spiraling humanitarian crisis there.
A powerful storm has killed at least seven Palestinians through building collapses, highlighting the deadly consequences of displacement.
A home has collapsed in Gaza City’s Sheik Radwan neighborhood, killing at least one person, according to the Hamas-run civil defense agency. The agency says it has recovered the body of the person killed and is working to recover the wounded people from under the rubble.
On Monday, Israel’s military took journalists into Rafah — the city at Gaza’s southernmost point that troops seized last year and largely flattened — as the 2-month-old Israel-Hamas ceasefire reaches a critical point.
A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. “It’s still standing,” one Israeli official said.
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With buckets and mops, the tent camp residents laboriously pushed water out of their tents to save their soaked furniture.