This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jalil and at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 12th of December these are our main stories.
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At least 12 people have been reported dead or missing as a result of a severe winter storm that has caused widespread flooding in Gaza.
The Hamas authorities also say more than a dozen buildings have collapsed and tens of thousands of tents sheltering displaced families have been inundated.
The UN is warning that 800,000 people are at risk from flooding Even as Israeli restrictions are preventing aid,
including material for shelters and sandbags from entering Gaza.
Two months on from a U.S.
brokered ceasefire, people in Gaza are still waiting for reconstruction to begin.
Israel and Hamas blame each other,
as a Trump administration urges both sides to move forward onto the second stage of the ceasefire deal.
Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports.
The path to Gadir's tent in Gaza City is swimming with muddy water.
Winter arrived here hard on the heels of war, before houses or lives were rebuilt.
Rain streams threw gaps in the flimsy canvas shelter Gadir shares with her husband and six children.
displaced from their home in Jabalia during the war.
We want caravans.