Gaza: Five Palestinians killed as sand embankment collapses on displacement tents

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Three children and two women die in Deir al-Balah as torrential rain and severe weather batter makeshift displacement camps across the Strip A sand embankment collapsed on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip late on Sunday, killing three children and two women as severe weather battered the territory. At least five other people were rescued with injuries by Civil Defence search-and-rescue teams at the makeshift camp in Deir al-Balah, where operations to locate missing peopl