Five Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Monday night after buildings damaged by Israeli airstrikes collapsed as a powerful storm battered the enclave, Palestinian civil defense and medical sources said Tuesday, APA reports, citing Anadolu Agency.
Four Palestinians, including an elderly man, a child, and two women, were killed after cracked homes and unstable structures collapsed due to heavy rainfall and strong winds in Gaza, civil defense officials said.
Several others were injured in separate incidents involving partially damaged buildings in Gaza City as winds intensified overnight.
An elderly man was also killed on Tuesday while inside his tent near the destroyed Al-Saraya Mosque in Gaza City, as remnants of the mosque minaret fell during the storm.
The storm has worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians living in tents across the Gaza Strip, where strong winds and heavy rain since the night hours have flooded, torn apart, and uprooted thousands of makeshift shelters, particularly along the coast, eyewitnesses said.
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