Heavy Snowfalls In Amman, Jordan, Cause Traffic Paralysis

Palestinians inspect the area where two women drowned following flooding in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, on Jan, 9, 2013. The fiercest storm hit the area in a decade has claimed the lives of two women who drowned after their car was caught in a flash flood unleashed by torrential rains, a Palestinian official said. <Xinhua/Nidal Eshtayeh>

A woman gets in to her car in a heavy snowstorm in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 9, 2013. Snowstorm and heavy rain caused the closure of main streets in the capital and other cities in Jordan over the past two days. <Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh>

People walk in the snow in the town of Safed, northern Israel, on Jan. 9, 2013. Hundreds of people were rescued from their homes after massive floods caused by snowfalls in northern Israel. <Xinhua/Jini>

A foreign tourist carries her child as they walk out the Church of the Nativity while snow falls over the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Jan. 9, 2013. Heavy rain and snow has affected the West Bank since Monday, resulting in two deaths and causing traffic chaos. <Xinhua/Luay Sababa>