A winter storm exacerbated the suffering of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, flooding tens of thousands of makeshift shelters and leaving families without dry bedding or protection from the freezing cold.
The government communications office in Gaza said that about 70,000 tents were flooded in the first 12 hours of the storm, while dozens of walls weakened by the Israeli bombardments collapsed.
At least five people were killed, including four children, due to the floods. Civil defense teams have received more than 1,500 emergency calls as rescue efforts have been hampered by a severe shortage of equipment and resources as crews continue to search for missing people.