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💢 Five Palestinians killed amid heavy rains On Sunday, at least five Palestinians, including four children, were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after a sand cliff collapsed onto makeshift tents where displaced families were sheltering. The sand cliff collapse was triggered by heavy winter rains. An unknown number of people are reportedly still missing under the massive pile of sand and rock. Civil defense workers and nearby residents searched through the rubble, largely working with their bare hands. “All of this we dug through with our own hands. We carried the children with our own hands, we carried the woman with our own hands,” Mustafa Al-Masri told Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed. Civil Defense had received over 2,100 distress calls since the first storm and was able to respond to only 218. Around 70,000 tents were flooded within 12 hours when the first winter storm of the season hit Gaza this weekend, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. Civil Defense received over 2,100 distress calls and declared a maximum state of emergency. Dozens of displacement encampments—tents, shelters, and entire residential areas—were flooded by the heavy rains, Civil Defense said. In some areas, water levels rose 1.5 meters. Abu Rami Abd Rabbo, a paternal cousin of the children, stressed that the blame lies with the Israeli occupation. People in Gaza are “deprived of sleep, food, drink and medical care,” he told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah, and “all the causes of that are the Israeli occupation and the world that props up the occupation.” 📹 Mohamed Ahmed and @AbdSabbah91

🔵 Save the Children: “This is a choice” “This is not simply the result of bad weather. Tents, shelter kits and fuel are waiting at Gaza’s borders while children sleep in floodwater, because the Israeli authorities are blocking their entry. This is a choice, and children are paying the price. More than a year into the so-called ceasefire, it has failed to protect Palestinian children.” 🎥 @AbdSabbah91 for Drop Site

“It’s three in the morning, and we can’t sleep because of the rain.” A displaced Palestinian man in Gaza films floodwater pouring into his family’s tent in the middle of the night. Fighting back tears, he shows the flooded floor and an elderly female family member lying under blankets. “We will not forgive,” he repeatedly declares. “God is sufficient for us.” 🎥 13K._.HAMED. (Instagram)

💢 BREAKING: A sand dune has collapsed onto tents sheltering two Palestinian families in Gaza following heavy rainfall. The bodies of two children have already been brought to Nasser Hospital. Israel and the @BoardOfPeace continue to block the entry of heavy machinery needed to rescue Palestinian families trapped in such disasters, while also blocking tents and mobile homes desperately needed for shelter.

🇫🇷 French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pledged Saturday that, if elected, French navy ships would escort citizen flotillas trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza “if necessary." "We will act head-on to help the Palestinians, against both the genocide in Gaza and the gradual annexation of the West Bank," Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, said at a rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, where he presented his program for the 2027 election. He said France would not accept Israel's "gradual annexation" of the West Bank, southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.