Gaza City – Heavy rains caused widespread flooding in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, placing further strain on run-down infrastructure and power supplies in the blockaded Palestinian territory.
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Rescue services used paddle boards to evacuate residents from a dozen flooded homes. Pools formed on main roads due to the poor drainage network.
Some 1.8 million people live in the coastal enclave, which is controlled by the Islamic militant group Hamas.
Hamas said dozens of chickens had died in Gaza farms. At one chicken coop, workers waded through waist-high water to retrieve dead birds and eggs.
Frequent power cuts and gas shortages have worsened due to the inclement weather, and some residents are burning wood to keep warm.
Mahmoud al-Shawa of the gas distributors’ union says not enough gas is entering the territory.
Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on Gaza when Hamas seized the territory from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in 2007.
Who cares.
what the Egyptians did to the terrorists tunnels in Rafah, HASHEM is doing the tunnels along the Israeli border. Lets hope they all collapse from all the water in them.
Again the poor Palestinian unfortunate people. Why should any human being care? They are murderers!! Hope they all suffer miserably till they croak like cockroaches sprayed with bug spray
good, good, I hope they enjoy the rain as much as they enjoy shooting rockets at us. Let them vote and support Hamas, so get nothing in return for paying taxes except building tunnels to kill and to build rockets to kill Israelis.
Voted for Hamas? enjoy the nothing that they provide…
Are the rats going to drown in their newly built tunnels?
If they do, the 72 virgins await them.
I guess Global Warming has reared its ugly head in the Mid East.
Maybe Bernie Sanders was right.