Caritas Jerusalem was there when the disaster happened and we wanted to follow up on the situation to see how the people were managing under the current situation in Um An-Nasir. We wanted particularly to get a child's perspective. In this regard, we met six-year-old Ayman Al Braq. After seeing his home destroyed and full of

Three hundred families are living in tents pitched on high ground near Umm Nasser, the village that was flooded after a filtration basin broke, sending thousands of cubic metres of sewage into the village on 27 March. Five residents were killed in the flood and 18 more were injured.

"We do not have enough medication or

Two children and three women were killed and 18 people injured in the Bedouin village of Umm Nasser near Beit Lahiya when an earthen embankment around a sewage reservoir collapsed on 27 March, sending a torrent of sewage and mud through the village.

Locals are now living in tents on higher ground. But the residents of al-Firdaus neighbourhood to the west of a

The updated figures related to the flood affecting - on the 27th of March - part of the Bedouin village of Um Al Nasser, in northern Gaza strip, are the following:

- Three children and three women were killed and a further 18 were injured (MoH sources).

- 333 families (2168 people), of which 26 (151 people) local residents and the remaining refugees have been evacuated from the flooded village to a nearby site, in 376 tents.

UNRWA has now established a comprehensive list of all families (including family size and tent number) which is to

The devastation occurred when a waste water treatment pool burst its banks next to the village of Um Nasser in Beit Lahiya, forcing around 1,500 people to flee their homes.

Two elderly women, two children and a teenage girl were among the dead while a further eleven people are missing.

At least 250 houses were damaged by the flood. The United Nations Relief Works Agency has set up a temporary camp

The move comes in response to a request from the water authorities in northern Gaza to try to reduce the threat to Beit Lahiya and surrounding communities from the main sewage reservoir. The facility, which contains about 2.5 million cubic metres of semi-treated waste, is already full but continues to receive a daily inflow of up to 30,000 cubic metres.

A smaller reservoir nearby, where some

On the 27th of March, 2007, at about 9.30 AM, a basin of sewage burst its banks and flooded part of the Bedouin village of Um Al Nasser, in northern Gaza strip, with 5000 inhabitants (700 families).

In the disaster, two children and three women were killed and a further 24 were injured.

About 1,800 people - 280 families - have been made homeless and evacuated from the flooded village.

PA, UN and humanitarian agencies rapidly responded to the emergency. The most urgent humanitarian needs have been met.

The people evacuated have been accommodated

Dès mercredi après-midi, CARE a distribué à 280 familles de la nourriture pour une semaine. De l'eau potable et des produits pour bébés sont acheminés vers la région sinistrée. CARE dresse