Egyptian relief teams spend a third day shoring up Gaza's flooded tent camps

Egypt's relief committee in Gaza has now kept its teams, bulldozers and heavy equipment on the move for a third straight day, as winter storms hit displaced families hard.

Rain and flash floods surrounded the tents and turned the paths between them into muddy pools, making it hard for people to get around. Crews levelled roads, filled in waterlogged dips and worked to secure the fragile shelters.

Bulldozers and trucks carrying tonnes of sand cleared safe passages. Teams also unloaded sand between the tents so residents could reinforce the ground around their shelters and build earth barriers that keep water and mud away from mattresses and belongings. Camp residents joined in the work, the committee said.

The operation, running under the slogan "Mustamirroun" ("We continue"), comes a day after sand collapsed onto displaced families' tents in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.