{ "story_id": "ec4f06af2bda41d1be1e9aebaa265571", "desk": "bad-news-beat", "revision": 1, "published_at": "2026-11-12T01:42:34.751Z", "content_hash": "3658fa6baabdf2bb32f9b34bff66dfe1d23c6ce0eadac4dd3ac320aec66c56f2", "hash_basis": "sha256 over `headline\\ndek\\nprose`, plus `\\n` + the canonical citations JSON when any source is placed, plus `\\n#blog` for blogs", "basis": { "headline": "Sand bank collapses on tents in Gaza's first winter storm, killing five", "dek": "Most of the dead were children. Two people were still missing. The same rain flooded about 70,000 tents, and rescuers lack equipment.", "prose": "A sandy embankment collapsed onto the tents of displaced people south of Deir al-Balah, in Gaza.[^1] Gaza's rescue service reported five people dead.[^2] Two people remain missing.[^3]\n\n## Who died\n\nThe accounts differ on the victims. Al Jazeera reported four children and one woman.[^4] Euronews reported three children and two women.[^5] Both give five dead, and both say most were children.\n\nRescue teams continued to search the site.[^6]\n\n## The storm\n\nHeavy rain from the first winter storm hit Gaza from Friday 6 November.[^7] It flooded about 70,000 tents.[^8] Hundreds of displaced families fled camps after the floods destroyed their shelters.[^9]\n\nGaza's Civil Defence received more than 1,500 emergency calls.[^10] The damage is estimated at $3 million.[^11]\n\n## Why the shelters failed\n\nThe need runs far past what the storm destroyed. Gaza needs 300,000 tents for displaced people.[^12] Israel blocks shelter supplies at the borders, Al Jazeera reported.[^13] Israeli authorities have blocked the entry of caravans.[^14]\n\nIsraeli military restrictions also cause a shortage of search and rescue equipment.[^15] None of these reports carries an Israeli response.\n\nSave the Children reports that more than half a million children in Gaza live in critical shelter conditions.[^16]\n\n## The warning\n\nCivil defence warned people against camping near sand mounds during rain.[^17] Gaza's authorities criticised global inaction after the collapse.[^18]\n\nIt is early November. 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