SHOTLIST:

DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA, PALESTINE (DEC. 12, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS WIDE SHOTS OF TENTS/ PEOPLE IN STREET

2. VARIOUS OF WATERS POOLED IN STREET AND TENTS/ CHILD STANDING IN STREET/ WATER SOAKED ITEMS IN TENTS/ DISPLACED PALESTINIAN PRESSING SOAKED MATTRESS/ POOL OF WATER OUTSIDE TENT

3. PALESTINIAN WOMAN WHO SHELTERS IN TENT, FAWZIYA MUSBAH SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

4. CHILDREN TRYING TO TIDY ROOM IN FLOODED TENT/ FLOODED TENT (TWO SHOTS)

5. PALESTINIAN WOMAN WHO SHELTERS IN TENT UMM MUHAMMAD ISLIM, SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

6. VARIOUS OF FLOODED AREA AND TENTS/ PALESTINIAN GIRL WASHING HAND IN POOL OF WATER IN STREET/ DAMAGED TENTS/ SOAKED ITEMS

7. PALESTINIAN MAN WHO SHELTERS IN TENT, MUHAMMED ISLIM SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

8. VARIOUS INTERIOR SHOTS OF FLOODED TENT/ CHILD SHOWING MUD ON TENT FLOOR / HOUSEHOLD ITEMS/ MUHAMMED ISLIM WALKING AS IT RAINS

9. WATER POOLED OUTSIDE DAMAGED TENT (TWO SHOTS)

10. VARIOUS OF CHILDREN WALKING AND TIDYING INSIDE FLOODED TENT

11. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS WALKING IN MUDDY STREETS, STREETS FILLED WITH WATER

12. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED TENTS AND WATER IN STREETS

13. PALESTINIANS TRYING TO REMOVE WATER FROM STREETS (TWO SHOTS)

14. WIDE SHOT OF AREA LITTERED WITH GARBAGE

15. PALESTINIAN WOMAN SHOWING SOAKED TENT (TWO SHOTS)

16. PALESTINIAN WOMAN REMOVING WATER FROM TENT

17. TENT

18. CONSTRUCTION MACHINE WORKING
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA, PALESTINE - DEC. 12, 2025: A powerful winter storm sweeping the Gaza Strip has killed at least 12 Palestinians, including children, as torrential rain, freezing temperatures, and strong winds triggered deadly collapses of bombed-out buildings, flooded displacement camps, and exposed families to extreme cold, according to Gaza’s Interior Ministry, the Gaza Media Office, Civil Defense, and medical sources.

Gaza’s Interior Ministry said Friday it recorded 12 incidents of collapsed buildings previously struck by Israeli attacks since the storm began Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of at least eight people, including children, and injuries to others. The collapses were caused by heavy rainfall and strong winds.

Several people remain missing under the rubble of a house that collapsed Friday in Gaza City’s al-Karama neighborhood after heavy rain, the ministry said, adding that emergency rooms received more than 4,300 distress calls from residents across the Strip since Wednesday.

Civil Defense and police teams, supported by municipal workers, are continuing rescue operations “despite extremely limited capabilities and worn-out equipment,” the ministry said.

- Tents destroyed, displacement worsens

Separately, the Gaza Media Office said the storm and polar cold wave have left 12 people dead or missing across all Gaza governorates due to building collapses and storm impacts.
It said at least 13 homes collapsed, most recently in Gaza City’s al-Karama and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, while Civil Defense teams continue to respond to hundreds of emergency calls.

The office said more than 27,000 displacement tents were flooded, swept away by torrents, or torn apart by strong winds, directly affecting over 250,000 displaced Palestinians whose shelters were destroyed or severely damaged by rain and runoff.

Gaza’s Civil Defense also reported that rescue teams in Gaza City recovered the body of a Palestinian killed when a house collapsed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of the city, after heavy rain weakened the already damaged structure.

The agency’s spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, told Anadolu that seven Palestinians were initially reported missing beneath the debris when the house collapsed.

In a separate incident, a security source told Anadolu that a building previously damaged by Israeli airstrikes collapsed in Gaza City’s al-Tuffah neighborhood due to heavy rainfall, without reported injuries.

Another war-damaged building also collapsed in the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza after the storm intensified. No casualties were reported in that incident.

With these latest cases, the number of buildings previously damaged by Israeli bombardment and later brought down by rain has risen to 16.