加薩沙堤坍塌壓垮帳篷 4人喪生

尼達爾・穆格拉比與馬哈茂德・伊薩報導By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa

開羅／加薩，11月9日（路透社）——加薩豪雨導致一處沙堤坍塌壓垮帳篷，造成一名婦女與3名幼童喪生。這起事件凸顯雨季冬季來臨之際，數十萬名流離失所巴勒斯坦人面臨的危險。CAIRO/GAZA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Torrential rain in Gaza caused a sand embankment to collapse on to tents, killing a woman and three small children in an incident that highlighted the danger facing hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians as the rainy winter season sets in.

醫護人員表示，週日晚間的大雨沖垮加薩中部代爾巴拉赫以南一處毗鄰流離失所家庭營地的多岩石沙堤。一名婦女及她兩名分別為8歲和6歲的孩子喪生。另有一名4歲兒童也罹難，其他6人受傷。Medics said heavy rain late on Sunday washed away a rocky sand bank abutting a camp for displaced families south of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. A woman and two of her children, aged 8 and 6, were killed. A fourth child, aged 4, was also killed, and six others were injured.

路透社查證的影片顯示，居民以手電筒搜尋受困在下方的人，有人用鐵鎚敲碎大型沙石，另有人用鏟子移除沙土。Video verified by Reuters showed residents using hammers to break large sandy rocks and others removing sand with shovels searching for people trapped underneath using flashlights.

罹難者親屬、35歲的阿瑪爾・宰因說：「人們還能怎麼形容加薩的處境？沒有死於炸彈和飛彈的人，正死於建築物倒塌壓身，死於沙土與山體崩塌壓身。」"What can one say about the situation in Gaza? Whoever did not die from bombs and missiles is dying from buildings collapsing on them, from the collapse of sand and mountains on them," said Amal Al-Zein, 35, a relative of the victims.

目擊者蘇海布・阿布・達爾巴利說，沙堤坍塌的聲響像爆炸一樣。Sohaib Abu Darbali, a witness, said the collapse of the embankment sounded like an explosion.

他告訴路透社：「我們發現山體崩塌壓到3頂帳篷後，帳篷已完全被掩埋。人們在瓦礫堆下，我們看不到他們。」"We found that three tents were covered completely after the mountain collapsed on top of them. People were under the rubble and we couldn't see them," he told Reuters.

「唯一解方是重建」'THE ONLY SOLUTION IS RECONSTRUCTION'

加薩200萬人口中的絕大多數住在帳篷營區，或住在遭轟炸建築物的廢墟中。以色列在哈瑪斯2023年攻擊以色列南部後發動為期兩年的軍事攻勢，至今重建仍尚未展開。The vast majority of Gaza's 2 million population lives in tent encampments or the ruins of bombed-out buildings, with reconstruction yet to begin following Israel's two-year military assault, launched after the 2023 Hamas attacks on southern Israel.

對其中許多人來說，這是他們必須應付的第4個冬天；每逢下雨，洪水便淹進帳篷，浸濕他們的家當。For many of them, this is the fourth winter during which they will need to cope with flood water overtaking their tents and soaking their belongings when it rains.

地方當局表示，週六開始下大雨後的最初幾個小時內，至少7萬頂帳篷遭水淹。Local authorities said at least 70,000 tents had been flooded in the first hours after heavy rain began on Saturday.

聯合國人道事務協調廳表示，人道夥伴已接獲超過2萬6000戶家庭求助，通報週末暴雨後住所或家當受損。The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said humanitarian partners had received appeals from more than 26,000 households reporting damage to shelters or belongings following weekend rainstorms.

去年由美國斡旋的停火協議要求加薩最終重建，但迄今進展甚微。談判人員未能就哈瑪斯解除武裝的條件，或以色列撤軍的條件達成共識；以軍目前控制約三分之二的加薩地區，且居民已被要求離開這些地區。A US-brokered ceasefire last year called for the eventual reconstruction of Gaza, but little progress has been made. Negotiators have failed to agree on terms for Hamas to disarm or for Israel to withdraw its troops, which control about two-thirds of the territory and from which residents have been ordered to leave.

加薩民防部門發言人馬哈茂德・巴薩爾表示，人們把帳篷搭在沙堤旁，以為沙堤能保護他們。Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza's civil defence service, said people put up their tents next to sand banks believing they could protect them.

巴薩爾告訴路透社：「帳篷保護不了人們，無論是擋雨或避熱都不行；唯一解方是重建。」"Tents can't protect people, neither from rain nor of the heat, the only solution is reconstruction," Basal told Reuters.

以色列表示，在哈瑪斯解除武裝之前，不可能進行任何重建。Israel says no reconstruction can happen before Hamas is disarmed.

（尼達爾・穆格拉比、馬哈茂德・伊薩及拉馬丹・阿貝德報導；亞歷克斯・理查森編輯）(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Mahmoud Issa and Ramadan Abed, Editing by Alex Richardson)