‘A slow genocide accelerated’: How Gaza’s winter ‘crisis’ is manufactured by Israel

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‘A slow genocide accelerated’: How Gaza’s winter ‘crisis’ is manufactured by Israel Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Wed, 11/11/2026 - 13:41 NGOs and mutual aid groups says tens…

Days ago, baby Ehab Mohammad Hamad was found by his mother, lifeless with blue lips, fingers and toes.

The six-month year old died of exposure after his family’s tent was flooded.

“No matter how hard we tried to keep the child warm and wrap him in blankets, it was all in vain,” the child’s grandmother said in a video posted by the Palestinian-led mutual aid group, the Sameer Project.

The group provided the family with a dome tent. But Hala Sabbah, who works with the organisation, said that the story fell on deaf ears.

“I was really frustrated that it wasn’t talked about,” Sabbah told MEE.

The deaths of Gaza’s babies in freezing, storm-battered tents is now becoming an annual phenomenon in the aid-starved enclave.

For the fourth winter in a row, rains have swept through Gaza, exposing woefully inadequate supplies of materials for shelter entering the strip.

This has forced 65 percent of the population - around 1.4m people - to shelter in makeshift shelters or tents which have been swamped in the downpour, or damaged buildings which risk collapse.

While the weather is turbocharged by a strengthening El Nino event, the paucity of aid is entirely man-made, leveraged as a pressure point by Israel over Gaza’s population.

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