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

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.