IN PICTURES: The Gaza Strip among the ruins and rain

A family cannot leave their home because of the rainwater (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Heavy waves hit a Gaza port (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Residents try to clear water from their house (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Children walk outside their temporary housing after a rainfall (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Waves during the storm off Gaza's coast (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Water collects outside temporary housing in Gaza (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Children try to cross Salah al-Din Street in Gaza City (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

A passerby watches as a huge wave hits Gaza's port (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

A child helps his family remove water that leaked into their home (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

A mother cooks food for her family on a wood stove because of a lack of cooking gas and electricity (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Ahmed Alkfarna in Bait Hanoun village lives in temporary housing with his family (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

Alkfarna says his family has suffered during the storm (MEE/Mohammed Asad)

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