Families in Gaza face an agonizing choice following last week's winter storm: endure exposure in tents after floods destroyed encampment shelters along with their possessions, killing one baby due to exposure — or shelter in buildings damaged in Israeli strikes earlier in the war that could collapse without warning.
A two-storey home in northwest Gaza City was the latest to partially collapse Tuesday, trapping a family underneath the rubble, killing a man and seriously injuring a family of five, local authorities say. The latest collapse comes as authorities warned a day earlier that more weakened buildings are at risk of falling as strong winds and heavy rain persist in Gaza.
Abu Rami Al-Husari, 46, said his brother and nephews were in the Hamid Junction in northwest Gaza City when the top floor of a two-storey home they were sheltering in, which had been damaged by Israeli bombing in the war, caved in on them.
“This [winter storm] wave affected everything so the home collapsed on them,” Al-Husari told CBC's Mohamed El Saife on Tuesday.
“There’s no place to live … there’s no space anywhere. They were forced to live here.”
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