India, Nov. 10 -- The United Nations Children’s Fund said in a press release dated 9 November 2026 that three children aged four, five and eight were killed along with their mother over the weekend when a sand dune collapsed onto their tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, after heavy rainfall.
Fatal incident and scale of impact
UNICEF said the heavy rains directly affected more than 106,000 people, damaging or destroying shelters, latrines, and belongings.
It said an estimated 950,000 displaced people live in flood-exposed areas, including 400,000—almost half of whom are children—in locations at extremely high risk.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said: “These children and their mother were killed because they had nowhere sa...