Storm is exacerbating Gaza’s humanitarian crisis: Mayor

Rising water levels are flooding Gaza’s shelters and making roads inaccessible, Gaza City Mayor Yahya al-Sarraj has told Al Jazeera. “We expect another wave of the storm, but we lack the necessary equipment to deal with it,” he said. “We rely on equipment rented from the private sector, which is old and unsuitable for dealing with the storm.” As we’ve been reporting, nearly 850,000 internally displaced Palestinians face the highest flooding risk in the coming days, with heavy rains likely to bring destruction and waste to makeshift encampments.