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More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in northern Gaza Strip following a flood caused by days of torrential rains. Gaza Health Ministry said one person died and score of others were injured as flood waters damaged poorly-built homes in what the United Nations has called “a disaster area.” The flooding was so severe that many homes could only be accessed by rowing boat. The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) that administers refugee camps in the Palestinian territory, said in a statement on Saturday, “Large swathes of northern Gaza are a disaster area with water as far as the eye can see.” Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the main UN aid agency in the territory, said areas near a refugee camp in northern Gaza “have become a massive lake with two-meter-high waters engulfing homes and stranding thousands.” Gunness said that thousands of agency workers were evacuating stranded Palestinians to UN shelters. The Hamas government said schools and other centers have turned into temporary shelters for thousands of homeless Palestinians in the past four days.

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