GAZA — A Palestinian woman was killed and several members of her family were injured on Sunday after part of a damaged building collapsed during severe weather in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

Medics said a wall from a residential structure weakened by previous Israeli strikes collapsed onto a tent sheltering a 30-year-old woman in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City.

Heavy rainfall and strong winds have swept across the enclave since late Saturday, flooding and uprooting thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians.

In southern Gaza, hundreds of tents erected along the beach in Khan Younis were inundated as rough seas and rising waves, driven by a low-pressure weather system, surged inland.

Aid workers and residents warned that the harsh weather poses growing risks to displaced families living in makeshift tents or severely damaged buildings, many of which remain structurally unsafe after months of bombardment.

The storm comes amid dire humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, where large parts of the enclave have been left in ruins since the start of the war in October 2023.

According to Palestinian health authorities, more than 71,200 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza since then, with more than 171,200 others injured. — Agencies