Weakened Typhoon Bavi moves inland in China with strong winds, heavy rains

Typhoon Bavi weakened to a strong tropical storm on Sunday morning in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, but is still expected to pack a punch as it moves toward China's eastern, northern, and northeastern inland regions, bringing heavy rains through Monday.

The ninth typhoon of the year landed on Zhejiang's coast at around 23:20 Saturday. With the maximum wind force at its center reaching 40 meters per second when landing, Bavi first churned ashore at Yuhuan City, a county-level city administered by the city of Taizhou, before making a second landfall in Yueqing City under the city of Wenzhou at around midnight.

Affected by Typhoon Bavi, many parts of China experienced strong winds and heavy rains. Meteorological satellite monitoring showed that from Saturday to Sunday, provincial-level regions such as Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi, Sichuan, and Zhejiang were lashed by heavy to torrential rain.

As of 08:00 Sunday, 246 meteorological stations across the country recorded heavy downpours in the past 24 hours and 2,464 stations registered downpours. Miaoli County in Taiwan recorded a record-breaking 603.5 mm of rainfall. Qianxi County in Tangshan City of north China's Hebei Province recorded a record-breaking 124.8 mm of rainfall in one hour.

Taizhou City was pounded by a maximum wind speed of 54.1 meters per second. Gale-force winds of 20.7 meters per second and higher were widespread in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan.

As Typhoon Bavi moved inland, it brought abundant moisture. Parts of northern China, northeast China, areas south of the Yangtze River, and areas between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River will see heavy rainfall from Sunday to Monday, with some areas experiencing downpours to heavy downpours.

At 13:00 on Sunday, Typhoon Bavi was located in Xuancheng City of east China's Anhui Province. It is expected to move northwest at 10 to 15 kilometers per hour, gradually weakening in intensity. It will turn northeast in eastern Anhui on Monday and move into the northern Yellow Sea from the Shandong Peninsula on Tuesday, where it will transform into an extratropical cyclone.

Weakened Typhoon Bavi moves inland in China with strong winds, heavy rains

Health officials in Gaza warned Saturday of a severe health crisis in the enclave, with critical shortages of medicines, equipment and ambulance services threatening hundreds of thousands of patients.

Mohammed Abu Afash, director of the Medical Relief Organization in Gaza, said the health system has not received promised medical convoys since the ceasefire, leaving a critical shortage of medicines and equipment, with medical testing supplies deficit exceeding 87 percent.

He noted that over 24,000 patients with chronic conditions lack proper care, and that many of the more than 300,000 hypertension patients have suffered serious complications due to interrupted treatment.

With summer heat intensifying, he warned of rapidly spreading infectious diseases in crowded displacement camps.

Meanwhile, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement that 70 percent of ambulance vehicles are out of service due to direct targeting, mechanical failures and lack of spare parts, warning that the continued ban on the entry of tires and spare parts could paralyze the transportation system.

The deteriorating situation drew condemnation from Fatah official Munther al-Hayek, who, in a radio interview, described the situation as "a full-fledged war led by the United States through Israel."

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been in effect since Oct 10, 2025.

Gaza's health system faces severe crisis as medicine, ambulance services dwindle: officials