APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 24 July 2021. Palestinians enjoy the beach of the Mediterranean sea.
01-SOUDBITE: Engineer Ahmed Abu Abdo, Coordinator of the General Department of Health and Environment
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Sea-level rise poses a risk to Gaza, resulting in a 50-meter rise in sea level along the Gaza coast. The rise in the sea level is likely to be faster and greater over the next couple of days.
Projecting future sea level is challenging, due to the complexity of many aspects of the climate system and to time lags in sea level reactions to Earth temperature changes.
Sea-level rise and other environmental factors could
Moderate weather conditions and light scattered showers are expected today in Palestine as temperature drops to become lower than the seasonal average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD).
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