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January 07, 2015 - 09:13 AM Snow fell Wednesday across the Middle East as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing at least four throughout the region, and forcing Syrians who have fled their country's civil war to huddle for warmth in refugee camps, raising concerns for the well being amid freezing temperatures in the flimsy shelters. Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip declared a state of emergency over the storm, after an 8-month-old Palestinian infant in the Tulkarem refugee camp was killed in a fire caused by a heating stove, Palestinian civil defense ministry spokesman Loae Bani Odeh said. While the storm disrupted life for everyone, it proved particularly trying for the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who live in tents and makeshift shelters in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where a 10-year-old girl was reportedly killed. In eastern Lebanon, security officials said a Syrian shepherd, Ammar Kamel, 30, and a 7-year-old boy, Majed Badawi, died in the storm Wednesday as they made the dangerous trek in rugged mountains covered with snow from Syria to the Lebanese border town of Chebaa. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. "There's no firewood, no diesel," said Ali Eshtawi, a refugee from Homs who spoke by phone from a camp near the Syrian border where he said snow had caused three tents to collapse, leaving 19 people without shelter." . Israel "Dissolving" Dome Of Rock foundation -- to Build 3rd Jerusalem Temple / [News] Check it out as it ill wake you up. Love, Bro Don |