Photo gallery: 11 dead as rain, snow, hail batter Middle East
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Syrian refugees carry their mattresses at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013. The unusual weather was a particularly harsh blow for the vulnerable Syrian refugees, especially about 50,000 sheltering in the Zaatari tent camp in Jordan's northern desert. -- PHOTO: AP
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A Syrian refugee makes his way through mud and water, at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013. The unusual weather was a particularly harsh blow for the vulnerable Syrian refugees, especially about 50,000 sheltering in the Zaatari tent camp in Jordan's northern desert. -- PHOTO: AP
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A street vendor sells fruit and vegetables covered in snow on the side of the road in the West Bank town of Hebron on Jan 9, 2013. Extreme weather, including torrential rains and heavy winds, killed four people in Israel and the Palestinian territories on Jan 8, as widespread flooding swept the Middle East. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A man walks through rain water in the village of Qabatiya, in the Israeli occupied West Bank near the northern city of Jenin, on Jan 9, 2013, as rain storms and snow engulfs the Levant. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Palestinian youngs walk on a snow-covered street after heavy snow falls on Jan 10, 2013, in Tuqua, near the West Bank City of Bethlehem. Abnormal storms, which for four days have blasted the Middle East with rain, snow and hail, leave swathes of Israel and Jordan under a blanket of snow and parts of Lebanon blacked out. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Syrian refugees sweep snow off a tent supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in al-Marj, in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley, on Jan 9, 2013, as stormy weather sparked widespread flooding, prompting chaos on the roads and a nationwide school closure. The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is already totaling 156,000, according to UN figures, and 200,000 according to the Lebanese government estimates. -- PHOTO: AFP
Syrian refugees carry their mattresses at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013. The unusual weather was a particularly harsh blow for the vulnerable Syrian refugees, especially about 50,000 sheltering in the Zaatari tent camp in Jordan's northern desert. -- PHOTO: AP
A Syrian refugee makes his way through mud and water, at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013. The unusual weather was a particularly harsh blow for the vulnerable Syrian refugees, especially about 50,000 sheltering in the Zaatari tent camp in Jordan's northern desert. -- PHOTO: AP
A street vendor sells fruit and vegetables covered in snow on the side of the road in the West Bank town of Hebron on Jan 9, 2013. Extreme weather, including torrential rains and heavy winds, killed four people in Israel and the Palestinian territories on Jan 8, as widespread flooding swept the Middle East. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man walks through rain water in the village of Qabatiya, in the Israeli occupied West Bank near the northern city of Jenin, on Jan 9, 2013, as rain storms and snow engulfs the Levant. -- PHOTO: AFP
Palestinian youngs walk on a snow-covered street after heavy snow falls on Jan 10, 2013, in Tuqua, near the West Bank City of Bethlehem. Abnormal storms, which for four days have blasted the Middle East with rain, snow and hail, leave swathes of Israel and Jordan under a blanket of snow and parts of Lebanon blacked out. -- PHOTO: AFP
Syrian refugees sweep snow off a tent supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in al-Marj, in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley, on Jan 9, 2013, as stormy weather sparked widespread flooding, prompting chaos on the roads and a nationwide school closure. The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is already totaling 156,000, according to UN figures, and 200,000 according to the Lebanese government estimates. -- PHOTO: AFP
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories - Abnormal storms have blasted the Middle East for four days with rain, snow and hail, leaving at least 11 people dead and bringing misery to Syrian refugees huddled in camps.
Two women were found dead in the West Bank on Wednesday, officials reported, after their car was swept away in floods while a 30-year-old man froze to death in Taalabaya, in Lebanon's Bekaa province after he fell asleep in his car drunk.
