The Middle East has been hit by violent winter storms and unusually cold weather.
Alexandria / Tel Aviv – Pictures on social media showed heavy hail showers in the coastal city of Alexandria in northern Egypt. The temperatures fell sharply, as the state news website Al-Ahram reported. Accordingly, a man died in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta by electrocution when he touched a lamppost in the rain. Refugee camps were flooded in northwest Syria. The vice-UN coordinator for humanitarian aid in the civil war country, Mark Cutts, said on Twitter on Tuesday that more financial aid is urgently needed so that safer living conditions can be created for the suffering people. The region around the city of Idlib is the last major rebel area.
In Lebanon, roads in mountain areas were blocked by snow. In the Mediterranean country, people particularly suffer from the cold. In the midst of a severe economic crisis, there is a lack of electricity and gasoline, so that many households have to get by without heating. In the next few days, more heavy rain is expected, it said from the weather department of Beirut Airport. In Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the storm “Carmel” caused heavy rain and thunderstorms. Snow fell on the Golan Heights and floods occurred in some Israeli towns. It was hailing in the coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv. In northern Israel, a young woman was killed on Monday when she lost control of her car in the heavy rain and hit a mast, Israeli media reported. More heavy rains were announced for Wednesday. (dpa)
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