Endless suffering: Gaza under freezing temperatures and windstorms destroying tents while the world watches

If this isn’t the apocalypse, tell us what it is. The wind gives no respite, nor does the rain on these wretched tents. That authentic genocide destroyed everything here in Gaza, and there are no houses or infrastructure or basic services. There is nothing that provides shelter, only a storm that dismantles huts and frost that is enough to freeze to death.

Other images are making the rounds on the web today, but no one can hear the cry of those people anymore. Anesthetized as we are and dazed and busy with our Christmas which tastes little of Advent and even less of Epiphany, in a liturgy all our own, designed only to fill us with affected smiles.

Yet, don’t those images cause you pain? Don’t blue curtains thrown in the air make you uncomfortable, the face of a woman who can’t take it anymore? Without safe shelter and limited access to supplies, winter storms are turning displacement areas into life-threatening emergency areas.

People die here. Disillusioned in the face of a world that until now had been so “indignant”, following colored ships and agreements without agreements.

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in October after two years of intense bombing and military operations, but it is clear that very little aid is still arriving. Why?

The appeal of the United Nations

UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has called for more aid to be urgently allowed into Gaza, without further delay, to prevent more displaced families from being put in grave danger. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of UNRWA, stressed that supplies have been blocked for months and that the supplies could help hundreds of thousands of people.

The flooded ruins where they take refuge are collapsing, exposing people to the cold – wrote Lazzarini on X. Furthermore, at least 300,000 new tents are urgently needed for around 1.5 million displaced people.

Meanwhile, digging continues to recover the approximately 9,000 bodies that are estimated to still be buried under the ruins of the bombed buildings, but there is a lack of adequate equipment to speed up the operations.

As these devastating storms and winter enter the scene, conditions in Gaza are increasingly untenable. Exposure to the cold, the absence of adequate shelter and the scarcity of humanitarian aid put the survival of millions of people at risk.

If this isn’t the apocalypse, tell us what it is.