Gaza / Ramallah, January 16, 2022 (Xinhua) caused a deep air depression that strikes the Palestinian territories by drowning inhabited houses and closing main roads in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Colonel Raed Al -Dahshan, a spokesman for the Civil Defense Agency in Gaza, told Xinhua that the civil defense crews have carried out dozens of tasks and operations since the start of the current air depression that started last Thursday until this morning (Sunday).
Al -Dahshan stated that the agency's crews spread along the sector dealt with 152 missions, including evacuating other homes and inspecting, fires, fires, flying metal panels, extracting water, and removing stuck trees..
He stressed that the Civil Defense Authority is in the event of "alert and alert" to deal with any emergency that may occur in the coming hours, coinciding with the continued rain in abundance in the sector..
In turn, the Gaza municipality said in a statement that ((Xinhua)) received a copy of it that the amount of rain that fell on the city during the past 24 hours reached about 75 mm, which is a large amount equivalent to one -fifth of the annual rate and led to low areas, which led to the rise in the water level..
The statement called on the donors to provide adequate support for the reconstruction of all areas where the infrastructure was affected by the recent wave of tension between the Palestinian factions and Israel last May.
It coincides with this, the Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza called on farmers to take the necessary precautions and measures to reduce crops damage due to the high rate of rainwater.
In a statement, the ministry called on farmers to take precautions and measures to the possibility of opening dams by the Israeli authorities, which deliberately opens the Israeli authorities towards the nearby residential neighborhoods..
The Ministry of Education in the sector also decided to disrupt the study in universities, schools and kindergarten in order to preserve the safety of students and teaching agencies..
In the same context, the Ministry of Social Development announced that its crews began to pay aid to the affected areas in the sector due to the depression, noting that there are a large number of families whose homes were drowned..
Aziza Al -Kahlt, a spokesman for the ministry, told ((Xinhua)) that the ministry started to disburse "covers, mattresses, forbidden, nylon, and food and healthy parcels" for families in all areas of the sector.
Al -Kahlout stated that those affected by the depression "cannot be counted because of the continuation of the inventory operations and the increase of their numbers, noting that the damage is large and there are many families whose homes were completely sank..
In the West Bank, the Civil Defense Agency announced dealing with dozens of accidents since this morning, as a result of the depression, including traffic accidents, fires, and the liberation of citizens who were suspended in their vehicles as a result of being trapped in rain water..
Since the day before yesterday (Friday), the Palestinian territories have been hit a deep air depression, at a time when the Palestinian Meteorological Department (governmental) expected that the depression will continue until the evening hours..
The Meteorological Department warned of the danger of the formation of torrents in the low areas, the intensity of wind speed, road skiing, low visibility, and frost forming from tonight.