At least five people have lost their lives, including two younger brothers, following the collapse of an earth trench over an area of tents in Deir al Balá, in the central area of the Gaza Strip.
The newspaper "Filastin" and the Palestinian news agency Sanad report that among the dead are the brothers Mariam and Salah Nabhan, aged six and eight years, respectively.
According to these outlets, the victims were buried under a huge slide of sand and mud caused by heavy rains and by the destruction of infrastructure during the last three years of Israeli military offensive, which fell on their tents in the Ard al Ribat camp.
Gaza authorities have attributed this "tragedy" to Israel, pointing out that bombings by the Israeli Army have razed homes, schools and shelters, forcing thousands of families to set up in tents that do not protect them from the rain, the cold, or events like the one that occurred this Monday.
The Ministry of Health of the Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamás), has raised this Monday to 56 the death toll from building collapses and sand mounds in the Palestinian enclave.
Likewise, it has placed the number of deaths at 1,613 and the number of injured at 5,833 since the start of the Israeli military offensive following the entry into force of the ceasefire agreed in October of last year, while since that date the lifeless bodies of 849 people have been recovered.
In total, since the Israeli Army launched its offensive against the Strip on October 8, 2023, in response to the attacks carried out the previous day by Palestinian militias, 74,643 Palestinians have died and another 175,962 have been injured.