Hamas civil defense: Gaza City home previously bombed by Israel collapses, killing 2 girls; 2 missing

Hamas’s civil defense agency says it has retrieved the bodies of two girls from a three-story family home that collapsed in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood overnight.

The home had been bombed by Israel during the Gaza war, the agency says. It urges Gazans sheltering in such buildings to find a safer place to stay.

The agency identifies the girls as Sondos and Jana Lubbad. According to Palestinian media, Sodos is the 17-year-old aunt of Jana, whose age is not given.

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The terror group’s agency said earlier this morning that it had located five survivors of the collapse, including a boy and two women, following a seven-hour search. They have been taken to a hospital, the agency says.

Sondos Lubbad’s parents are presumed dead and their bodies are still missing under the rubble, according to the agency.

The agency says 22 homes have partially or totally collapsed amid the heavy winter rainfall since December 10, leading to the deaths of 18 Palestinians, four of whose bodies remain under rubble.

The UN reported in October that over half of Gaza’s structures were destroyed in the war with Israel and that roughly 40% of the remaining structures are severely or moderately damaged.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans face flooding of their tents and shelters by heavy rains, and materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave, according to the UN.

COGAT, the Israeli agency that oversees the entry of aid to Gaza, has denied the allegations, saying it has let in hundreds of thousands of tents and tarpaulins and is waiting for international organizations to let in close to 100,000 pallets of “water-related items.”