Gaza at the Heart of the Weather Depression: 288,000 Families Left Homeless amid Calamity and Destruction
A follower does not need many details to realize the scale of the tragedy that the people of Gaza are living through these days. While a severe weather front hits the Gaza Strip, thousands of families find themselves facing a harsh trial in the weather, coinciding with unprecedented destruction caused by the war and the blockade.
The scene is not limited to images of rain or wind; it is a scene of families left to drown in pain, cold, and neglect, trying to endure with whatever remaining capacity they have to withstand.
According to local estimates, about 288,000 families are facing the weather front without protection, without cover, and without any response commensurate with the level of need.
Yet, some people still talk about “tents.”
But… what tents?
Tents That Cannot Withstand… and People Left Exposed
The tent, which is supposed to be a refuge, has become incapable of standing against even a single gust of wind.
So how can it protect a child shivering from the cold?
And how can it provide a family with even a minimal sense of security?
The tragedy is that more than 93 percent of the displaced have no suitable tents at all.
This percentage reveals a massive humanitarian gap and presents us with a reality beyond any description.
What is needed today is not luxury, nor an improvement in living standards.
What is simply needed:
- A tent.
- A piece of cloth.
- A temporary roof better than the open air.
Painful Questions… Yet Real
What time is this, when asking for a tent becomes a difficult demand?
What weakness is this, that leaves the displaced to face cold, floods, and winds?
And what greater oppression than a father or mother standing helpless before their children, seeing danger approaching, with no means to repel it?
A Weather Front Over a Devastated Infrastructure
This weather front passes over a strip suffering from an almost complete collapse of infrastructure:
- Destroyed sewage systems
- Roads unable to drain water
- Shattered homes
- Camps no longer fit for living
Despite warnings of floods and torrents in Gaza and the Levant, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is deteriorating due to the absence of even the simplest tools needed to face the weather conditions.
Gaza Municipality: No Resources Available
The Mayor of Gaza summarized the scene in clear words:
- “The weather front exacerbates the humanitarian crisis amid the destruction of infrastructure and the absence of resources.”
- “We expect a new wave of the weather front and we do not have the proper tools to deal with it.”
- “We rely on machinery rented from the private sector… they are old and unsuitable to face the front.”
These testimonies reveal the harshness and misery of reality, and confirm that the Strip was left unprotected not only from war but also from the simplest climatic trials.
Civil Organizations: The Occupation Blocks Aid Entry
The network of civil organizations in Gaza confirmed that the occupation continues to obstruct the entry of aid, including essential materials needed to deal with the effects of the weather front.
With this ongoing prevention, talking about “dealing with the storm” becomes almost impossible.
In Gaza, the cold intersects with the blockade.
The weather front intersects with the destruction.
And families remain alone facing a severe weather trial, amid the absence of international responsibility, lack of local tools, and the continued restrictions on aid entry.
What is happening today is not a fleeting scene, but a moral mirror for the world at a moment when its conscience is tested, and its ability to protect the most basic human rights is examined:
The right to shelter… even if it is just a tent.
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