With many winter supplies barred by Israel, black-market merchants are selling paper-thin tents for up to $1,000. After losing a tent to rain and high winds, one Palestinian said, ‘We don’t know where we will sleep the next time it rains.’One Palestinian said, ‘We don’t know where we will sleep the next time it rains’
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Israel has killed at least 400 Palestinians and injured over 1,100 others since the ceasefire began in October.
“This is unprecedented damage,” said the lead researcher on the project, who has worked in wartorn Syria. Gaza has “become like a barren land.”
In violation of the ceasefire, Israel continues to block tents from entering Gaza, leaving displaced families to face a harsh winter.
Almost no agricultural equipment or even seeds have entered Gaza since October 2023, as farmlands lie in ruin amidst ecological destruction.
Israeli settler militias, backed by soldiers, are laying waste to Palestinian communities – beating residents, torching crops, smashing cars, slaughtering animals.
It’s an old strategy used time and time again: Israel’s hardliners benefit from sowing internal violence, chaos, and Palestinian division.
“I feel such pain in my heart after losing my dad,” said 12-year-old Gazal Basam at the camp for orphans. “I want to live like I did before the war, but I know life will never be the same again.”
On their way out of Gaza, the Israeli military went on an arson spree, setting fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in Gaza City.