IN PICTURES: Heavy rain and snows pound the Middle East

Members of the Lebanese Red Cross walk across the snow towards a refugee camp sheltering Syrian refugees in the village of Deir Ahmar, in the Lebanese Bekaa valley, on 8 January (AFP)

A Syrian man rides his bicycle carrying water bottles in the heavy snow on January 7, 2015 in Ayn Tarma town of Damascus, Syria (AA)

A Syrian refugee stands at the entrance of her tent during a snow storm at an unofficial camp on the road between Riyaq and Baalbek in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley (AFP)

Ice covered stray donkeys stand outside at cold weather in Cikrik Neighborhood of Karacadag region located in Siverek district of Sanliurfa province, Turkey (AA)

Ishaq Abu Romeileh, a 65-years old Palestinian man, swims in a pond covered in ice in the city center of the West Bank town of Hebron (AFP)

Skiers and snowboarders performed tricks in the annexed Golan Heights in northern Israel (AFP)

Palestinian children in Gaza huddle around a fire to keep warm as temperatures plummet (MEE / Mo Asad)

Heavy rain and wind pounded Gaza, as waves lashed its shores (MEE / Mo Asad)

Gaza was hard-hit by the storms as basic infrastructure has not been repaired since this summer's war (MEE / Mo Asad)

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