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Palestinians cross a road flooded and swept away by heavy rains in the northern West Bank village of Kabatyeh. A Palestinian official says the fiercest storm to hit the area in a decade has claimed the lives of two West Bank women who drowned after their car was caught in a flash flood unleashed by torrential rains. Image Credit: AP
Men play in the snow after a heavy snowstorm in Amman. Snowstorm and heavy rains caused the closure of main streets in the capital Amman and other cities over the past two days. Image Credit: REUTERS
Palestinians look at water in an overflowing stream in the West Bank village of Al Nassariyeh near Nablus. Image Credit: REUTERS
A family walks through snow in Sawfar village in eastern Lebanon. Image Credit: REUTERS
Traffic policemen help push a stranded car along a flooded street in Amman. Image Credit: REUTERS
Railway workers stand at a flooded train station in Tel Aviv. Unusually heavy winter rains forced the closure of main access routes to Tel Aviv, causing gridlock in and around Israel's commercial capital. Image Credit: REUTERS
People stand outside a flooded shop in Amman. Heavy rains caused the closure of main streets in the capital Amman and other cities over the past two days. Image Credit: REUTERS
A Palestinian woman passes keys to a person on the other side of a flooded road in the West Bank of Jenin. Stormy weather, including high winds and heavy rainfall, lashed Israel and the Palestinian territories, downing power-lines and trees. Image Credit: AP
Lebanese citizens make their way through snow unable to find transport on the Beirut-Damascus highway, in Sawfar mountain, Lebanon. Lebanon has been hit with a snow storm that has blocked roads in the mountains and brought heavy rain showers to the capital Beirut and other coastal areas since Sunday. Image Credit: AP
Syrian refugees walk on water and mud, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Image Credit: AP
Traffic policemen help push a stranded car along a flooded street in Amman. Heavy rains caused the closure of main streets in the capital Amman and other cities over the past two days. Image Credit: REUTERS
Workers attempt to repair a drain along a flooded main street in Amman. Image Credit: REUTERS
People make their way through a flooded street during a heavy winter storm in Hay Al Sellom in Beirut's southern suburbs. Floods caused by heavy rain damaged properties and vehicles across the country. Image Credit: REUTERS
A Syrian refugee man carries his baby as he makes his way through flooded water at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon. Image Credit: AP
A Syrian refugee removes water and mud around his tent, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Image Credit: AP
A stranded bus is seen on a flooded street after heavy rain in Amman. Image Credit: REUTERS
A boy makes a print of his hand on a car windscreen covered with snow before clearing it, during stormy weather in the Druze village of Majdal Shams on the Golan Height. Image Credit: REUTERS
Two Syrian refugees walk among tents, surrounded by water and mud, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Image Credit: AP
A Syrian refugee points towards the temporary refugee camp which was flooded by rain, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon. Image Credit: AP
A car is covered with snow after a heavy snowstorm in Sawfar village, eastern Lebanon. Image Credit: REUTERS
Workers attempt to repair a drain along a flooded main street in Amman. Image Credit: REUTERS
A person crosses the blocked and flooded Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv, Israel. Image Credit: AP
A Syrian refugee boy makes his way through flooded water at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon. Image Credit: AP
A resident is seen walking through the snow covered main highway linking Beirut to Damascus after a heavy snowstorm in Sawfar village, eastern Lebano. Image Credit: REUTERS
A view of the flooded Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv, Israel. Image Credit: AP
A Syrian refugee boy makes his way through water and mud, next to a UNICEF school at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Image Credit: AP
A boy and a man walk with umbrellas as snow falls during stormy weather in the Druze village of Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights. Image Credit: REUTERS
Floodwaters cover the Ayalon highway during stormy weather in Tel Aviv. Image Credit: REUTERS
A Syrian refugee family leave their tent after it has been flooded with water and mud, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Image Credit: AP
A view of the flooded Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv, Israel. Image Credit: AP

PICTURES Stormy weather and cold spell sweep Middle East

Torrential rains and heavy snowfall have brought travel chaos, flooding and turned life into a cold, muddy mess across the Middle East. The weather is expected to remain the same for the rest of the week.

Compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Producer
January 9, 2013

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