IN PICTURES: Palestinians carry on despite latest storm

The storm lashed several countries in the Middle East, including Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Palestinians walk through the storm along the harbour of Gaza City (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Gazan fishermen, already struggling with the desperate economic situation, cannot go out to sea, due to dangerous weather conditions (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Palestinian children carry a gas bottle during a storm in the Beach Camp of Gaza City (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Palestinians stand in front of metal caravans which are used shelters in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza. They say the caravans are ill-equipped for the winter (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Children try to warm themselves around a fire in one of the destroyed sections of Shujayea, east of Gaza City (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

According to Oxfam International, 25 percent of the population in Gaza - 450,000 people - currently have no access to running water and most areas of Gaza are now without electricity for 18 hours a day (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Despite the bad weather conditions, some bulldozers work in Shujaiya to clear the rubble (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

The Helles family has started to build a new, modest home next to their destroyed house. The owner had to borrow money for the rebuilding (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Palestinian women from the Shamali family prepare food in a tent near the destroyed section of Shujayea (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

Members of the Shamali family in front of their shelter which is home for four families (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)

A Palestinian man warms himself near a fire in a shelter where he stays during the day with his neighbours. The shelter is situated next to their destroyed homes in Shujayea. 'We are all neighbours but one family,' says one of the men in the shelter (MEE/Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri)