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Four killed in Gaza after sand embankment collapses on to tents
CAIRO/GAZA, Nov 9 -
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embankment → kill → tents
Torrential rain in Gaza caused a sand embankment to collapse on to tents, killing a woman and three small children in an incident that highlighted the danger facing hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians as the rainy winter season sets in.
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season → cause → Palestinians
Medics said heavy rain late on Sunday washed away a rocky sand bank abutting a camp for displaced families south of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
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rain → say → Gaza
A woman and two of her children, aged 8 and 6, were killed.
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woman → kill → children
A fourth child, aged 4, was also killed, and six others were injured.
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others → kill → ?
Video circulated on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed residents using hammers to break large sandy rocks and others removing sand with shovels before bodies wrapped in blankets and fabric sheeting, stained with blood, were pulled out.
"What can one say about the situation in Gaza?
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one → circulate → Gaza
Whoever did not die from bombs and missiles is dying from buildings collapsing on them, from the collapse of sand and mountains on them," said Amal Al-Zein, 35, a relative of the victims.
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Zein → die → victims
Sohaib Abu Darbali, a witness, said the collapse of the embankment sounded like an explosion.
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collapse → say → explosion
"We found that three tents were covered completely after the mountain collapsed on top of them.
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mountain → find → them
People were under the rubble and we couldn't see them," he told Reuters.
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he → see → Reuters
The vast majority of Gaza's 2 million population lives in tent encampments or the ruins of bombed-out buildings, with reconstruction yet to begin following Israel's two-year military assault, launched after the 2023 Hamas attacks on southern Israel.
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reconstruction → live → Israel
For many of them, this is the fourth winter during which they will need to cope with flood water overtaking their tents and soaking their belongings when it rains.
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it → need → belongings
Local authorities said at least 70,000 tents had been flooded in the first hours after heavy rain began on Saturday.
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rain → say → Saturday
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said humanitarian partners had received appeals from more than 26,000 households reporting damage to shelters or belongings following weekend rainstorms.
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partners → say → rainstorms
A US-brokered ceasefire last year called for the eventual reconstruction of Gaza, but little progress has been made.
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progress → broker → Gaza
Negotiators have failed to agree on terms for Hamas to disarm or for Israel to withdraw its troops, which control about two-thirds of the territory and from which residents have been ordered to leave.
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residents → fail → which
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza's civil defence service, said people put up their tents next to sand banks believing they could protect them.
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they → say → them
"Tents can't protect people, neither from rain nor of the heat, the only solution is reconstruction," Basal told Reuters.
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Basal → protect → Reuters
Israel says no reconstruction can happen before Hamas is disarmed.
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Hamas → say → ?
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