2013 Middle East Cold Snap, Alexa Winter Storm, Cairo, Egypt

It was reported that Lebanese Army was called in to help distribute emergency aid to Syrian refugees, as the UN handed out fuel, blankets, heaters and food rations yesterday amid a third day of severe winter weather in the region.
According to Abou Faour's announcement, published in Al Nahar newspaper on December 12, “There are 1,600 refugee (makeshift camps) in addition to 431 random camps, which makes it difficult to reach these places. That is why the cabinet had to ask for the help of the army to make as much aid reach those refugees as possible”.
• The Palestinian Authority
Ramallah and Bethlehem were coated in snow and some lower-lying areas suffered flooding from heavy rain.