Rain and strong winds lashed Gaza, flooding displacement sites across all five governorates and collapsing a dune onto tents that killed three children and two women. About 1.4 million people live in tents or makeshift shelters, and humanitarian stocks of winter supplies inside Gaza are virtually exhausted.
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