Gaza… Winter rains kill like war missiles

Under the weight of bombardment and rain, the Gaza Strip endured one of its most harrowing weeks since the start of the war of annihilation more than three years ago. This week, Israeli missiles were not the only cause of death for the displaced; the weather also contributed, leaving six victims, mostly children, who perished from the cold and floods that inundated the cramped displacement camps with torrential downpours. This reveals a catastrophe that is expected to worsen with the arrival of the coming winter storms.

Amid this dire humanitarian situation, exacerbated by two days of relentless rain, the occupying forces continued their aerial and artillery bombardments, demolishing homes and firing on those trapped in flooded tents, killing and injuring more residents and adding to the already long list of victims.

Raids and killings

The sounds of raids did not subside even during the worst of the storm crisis, and they affected displaced people and citizens who were forced to flee their tents flooded with rainwater, and they were homeless in the streets facing the harshness of nature, killing and injuring a number of them, while the occupation forces continued to destroy what remained of the houses located behind the “yellow line” in several areas of the sector.