Winter rain kills Palestinian amid Gaza’s shattered infrastructure

At least one Palestinian was killed and several others are injured after part of a residential building collapses in Gaza City during heavy rainfall, Gaza’s Civil Defence says.

Civil defence crews recover the body from beneath the rubble of a partially collapsed home in the Shati refugee camp, while rescuers pull several wounded people from the debris.

Witnesses say strong winds and torrential rain have flooded or torn apart thousands of tents housing displaced families since Monday evening, leaving people exposed to the elements with nowhere safe to go.

The latest death comes as Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, devastated by years of Israeli bombardment, with damaged buildings increasingly at risk of collapse.

Aid workers warn that Israel’s destruction of homes, combined with its siege and restrictions on shelter materials, has turned winter storms into another deadly threat for Palestinians already living through a humanitarian catastrophe.