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Young Palestinian boy drowns in muddy water flooding his Gaza tent camp, UN says
Seven-year-old Ata Mai drowned in flooding of Gaza tent camp amid worsening winter hardships; UNICEF reports at least six children have died from weather-related causes.
- On Thursday, the U.N. reported that Ata Mai drowned in a Gaza City tent camp of around 40 tents during severe flooding Saturday.
- Over past weeks, cold winter rains have repeatedly lashed the sprawling tent cities, flooding sites where more than 2 million people live after two years of war.
- Video from Civil Defense teams showed rescue workers pulling the boy's ankle from a pit filled with muddy water, later wrapping his body and loading it into an ambulance.
- UNICEF warned that at least six children, including Mai, have died of weather-related causes, and the Gaza Ministry of Health reported three hypothermia deaths as Edouard Beigbeder described appalling camp conditions.
- As 2026 begins, the shaky 12-week-old ceasefire has largely ended large-scale bombardment, but Palestinians are still killed daily and Israeli forces seized around 50 Palestinians in a West Bank sweep.
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Young Palestinian boy drowns in muddy water flooding his Gaza tent camp, UN says
The U.N. said Thursday that a Palestinian boy in Gaza has drowned in floods that engulfed his tent camp and health officials reported the death of a 9 year-old boy in Gaza in unclear circumstances.
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Today, Thursday, the United Nations said that a Palestinian child was drowned in the Gaza Strip as a result of the floods surrounding his tent in his camp, where he showed the footage of rescue men trying to pull his body out of muddy water by pulling him out of his ankle. This incident is the latest indication of the winter suffering of the population of the Strip.
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