The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, headed by Ismail Haniyeh, on Tuesday appealed to the international community to save the flood-stricken areas in Gaza Strip and to send urgently needed construction material. Ahmed Al-Kurd, the minister of social affairs, said, according to PIC, that "Gaza Strip was the target of siege then war and now came the floods."
According to him, the government started implementing an emergency plan to provide shelter for 70 families who sought refuge in one of the schools.
For his part, minister of public works and housing Yousef Al-Mansi said that his ministry's crews were working round the clock to rescue the residents in areas submerged by the floods. The government said in a statement that premier Haniyeh was personally supervising the rescue operations in the flooded areas in central Gaza Strip.
