Deaths in the Australian states of Queensland and Victoria as a result of bad weather

Several people died as a result of bad weather in the states of Queensland and Victoria, eastern Australia, on Wednesday.

Police said three people were killed after a boat with 11 people on board capsized in bad weather in Moreton Bay off the coast of Queensland on Tuesday.

Ambulances also transported the eight survivors to a hospital for treatment, and their condition was stable.

A 59-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on her in the city of Gold Coast, Queensland, on Monday evening, and authorities found the body of a 9-year-old girl on Tuesday in the neighboring city of Brisbane, hours after she disappeared in a flooded drain.

The bodies of two women (40 and 46 years old) were also found in the Mary River in the town of Gympie in Queensland.

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said the deaths were due to extremely bad weather, adding: "It's been a very tragic 24 hours due to the weather."

Severe weather has battered parts of southeastern Australia since Monday, including Queensland and Victoria.

Thunderstorms and strong winds caused more than a thousand power lines to fall in areas of Queensland, causing a power outage for 85,000 people.

Egypt welcomes the appointment of Sigrid Kaag as Chief Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator in Gaza

Egypt welcomed the appointment of Dutch Minister Sigrid Kaag as Chief Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator in Gaza.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday that Egypt “welcomes the appointment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations of Sigrid Kaag to the position of Chief Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction in Gaza, and the start of implementing measures to establish the mechanism included in Security Council Resolution 2720 to facilitate the entry and monitoring of aid to the Strip.”

Earlier, the United Nations said that its Secretary-General, António Guterres, “announced the appointment of Ms. Sigrid Kaag from the Netherlands, as Senior Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction in Gaza ,” to be in charge of establishing an international mechanism “to expedite humanitarian relief shipments to Gaza through countries that are not parties to the conflict.” ".

This comes after the UN Security Council adopted the resolution on expanding humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and monitoring it, with the approval of 13 members of the Council. The coordinator will be responsible for facilitating, coordinating and monitoring the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, as well as verifying the humanitarian nature of all humanitarian aid shipments that are delivered. Through countries other than parties to the conflict.

The UN Security Council requests the coordinator to “urgently establish a UN mechanism to accelerate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza through countries not party to the conflict,” and to submit a report on his work within 20 days, and then submit a report every 90 days.