The Spanish government will send convoys carrying COVID-19 vaccine and food supplies to areas cut off by Storm Filomena.
In the Madrid area, rescuers reached 1,500 people trapped in cars, while police broke up a large snowball fight after authorities appealed for citizens to stay at home for risk of accidents or spreading coronavirus.
Forecasters warned of dangerous conditions in the coming days, with temperatures expected to fall to up to minus 10 degree Celsius next week and the prospect of snow turning to ice and damaged trees falling.
Madrid's main international airport was closed and the operator said would not re-open until Sunday afternoon at the earliest, when flights would resume gradually.
About 20,000 km of roads across central Spain were affected by the storm, with officials confirming the death of four people due to the extreme weather conditions.
The State Metereological Agency (Aemet) said up to 20-30 cm of snow fell in Madrid on Saturday, the most since 1971.
French jails were hit by a second wave of attacks overnight, including three cars set alight at Tarascon prison in southern France, the Justice Minister and a prison workers' union said on Wednesday, as authorities sought to identify those responsible.
Gaza has become a "mass grave" for Palestinians and those trying to help them, medical charity MSF said on Wednesday, as medics said the Israeli military killed at least 13 in the north of the enclave and continued to demolish homes in Rafah in the south.
UNICEF has projected that its 2026 budget will shrink by at least 20 per cent compared to 2024, a spokesperson for the UN children's agency said on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump slashed global humanitarian aid.
US President Donald Trump threatened to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status on Tuesday and said the university should apologise, a day after it rejected what it called unlawful demands to overhaul academic programmes or lose federal grants.