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Storm Byron kills nine people in Gaza as rainfall continues: Report
Storm Byron, which is currently hitting Gaza, has so far killed at least nine people and injured a number of others due to flooding and building collapse, according to the Wafa news agency.
Local sources told Wafa that five Palestinians died overnight after a house sheltering displaced people in the Bir an-Naaja area in the North Gaza governorate collapsed.
At dawn, two people died after a large wall collapsed onto the tents of those displaced in the Remal neighbourhood of western Gaza City. Yesterday, one person died as a result of a wall collapse in the Shati camp, and a newborn died due to the cold temperatures in the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis.
A displaced Palestinian child walks in a tent camp on a rainy day in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, on December 11
Storm death toll reaches 10 after another baby dies due to cold
This morning, another baby was announced and confirmed dead in the Shati refugee camp. This baby lost his life after he froze to death, and this brings the death toll from this storm to 10.
A medical source in Gaza has confirmed the death of another child due to the cold weather, meaning at least two children have died today and one more yesterday. A source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera Arabic that nine-year-old Hadeel al-Masri died in a shelter for displaced people west of Gaza City. Baby Taim al-Khawaja also passed away in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
The grandfather of the baby boy told Al Jazeera that his family had been sheltering in a house with no roof after their house was bombed during an Israeli attack. “Yesterday, we were surprised to hear his mother screaming, saying, ‘My son is blue!’ so we carried the boy and went to al-Rantisi Hospital,” the grandfather explained. “His temperature remained between 33 and 34 degrees, which has affected all his organs. His brain began to deteriorate, and that was the end of it,” he added.
This shows how harsh this storm has been on the Gaza Strip and for Palestinians. We’re talking about at least 10 Palestinians who died in the past 24 hours. We’re also talking about 10 houses that collapsed in the past 24 hours, and more houses are threatening to collapse at any minute while Palestinians are actually sheltering inside those houses.
Gaza’s civil defence continues rescue operations across enclave amid storm
Gaza’s civil defence says teams managed to retrieve a body and two injured children from the rubble of a collapsed house in the Bir an-Naaja area of northern Gaza, with work continuing to extract others.
The rescue teams also evacuated residents of the Darby family house after the building’s entrance collapsed in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Moreover, a rescue team from Deir el-Balah governorate recovered a Red Crescent vehicle that had become stuck in a water hole near al-Suwarah cemetery in the Nuseirat camp.
But as heavy rainfall continues to fall on Gaza, Gaza’s civil defence warned residents yesterday who are living in houses that have been damaged by Israeli attacks that it was unsafe to stay in them during the storm.
Displaced Palestinians shelter in a tent at a camp in Gaza City, on December 11
