More than 5,000 evacuated from Gaza 'disaster area' floods

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More than 5,000 evacuated from Gaza 'disaster area' floods

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/more-4-000-evacuated-gaza-39-disaster-area-132902326.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oiI2_riSXkFATp331VcNfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-12-14T172232Z_3_CBRE9BD11GK00_RTROPTP_2_PALESTINIANS-GAZA-WEATHER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Members of Palestinian civil defense operate a boat as they evacuate people after their houses were flooded with rainwater on a stormy day in the northern Gaza Strip" align="left" title="Members of Palestinian civil defense operate a boat as they evacuate people after their houses were flooded with rainwater on a stormy day in the northern Gaza Strip" border="0" /></a>By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from flood-damaged homes in northern Gaza and at least one person killed in what the United Nations called &quot;a disaster area&quot;. &quot;Large swathes of northern Gaza are a disaster area with water as far as the eye can see,&quot; the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) that administers refugee camps in the Palestinian territory, said in a statement on Saturday. Severe weather in the form of heavy snowfall also paralyzed Palestinian cities such as Hebron in the occupied West Bank, as well as Jerusalem and parts of Israel's northern Galilee.</p><br clear="all"/>

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