{"id":307396,"date":"2025-11-17T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=307396"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:30:02","slug":"winter-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/winter-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most urgent task, to end genocide<\/em>, requires truthful coverage about Israel\u2019s war crimes. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

10 Nov 2025\u00a0<\/em>– On Saturday, 8 Nov 2025, Dan Perry wrote<\/a> in The Jerusalem Post<\/em> about Israel\u2019s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza. Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinians, who refuse to be silent. To date, Israel has assassinated over 240 Palestinian journalists.<\/p>\n

Perry writes: \u201cThe High Court ruled last week that the government must consider allowing foreign journalists into Gaza but also granted a one-month extension due to the still-unclear situation in the Strip.\u201d He asserts that Israel had and has no motive for excluding foreign journalists save concern for their own protection.<\/p>\n

He makes two appeals: first, the duplicitous demand that Israel should use the one-month reprieve to cover up the evidence of atrocities: \u201cSoon, journalists and photographers will enter Gaza\u2026 They will find terrible sights. Hence, Israel\u2019s urgent task: to document retrospectively, to finally prepare explanations, to show \u2026 that Hamas operated from hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.\u201d In other words, bury the truth with the bodies.<\/p>\n

Secondly, that since in this conflict Israel did absolutely nothing that it could have wished to hide, it should learn not to impose absolute media blackouts so likely to arouse suspicion.<\/p>\n

I sense a cold, hard winter within the souls of people in league with Dan Perry\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n

Now, a cold, hard winter approaches Gaza. What do Palestinians in Gaza face, as temperatures drop and winter storms arrive?<\/p>\n

Turkish news agency \u201cAnadolu Ajansi\u201d reports<\/a> \u201cPalestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to endure hunger under a new starvation policy engineered by Israel, which allows only non-essential goods to enter the enclave while blocking essential food and medical supplies. \u2026shelves stacked with non-essential consumer goods disguise a suffocating humanitarian crisis deliberately engineered by Israel to starve Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t found eggs, chicken, or cheese since food supplies started entering the Gaza Strip,\u201d Aya Abu Qamar, a mother of three from Gaza City, told Anadolu. \u201cAll I see are chocolate, snacks, and instant coffee. These aren\u2019t our daily needs,\u201d she added. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for something to keep our children alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

On November 5th<\/sup> 2025 the Norwegian Refugee Council sounded this alarm<\/a> about Israeli restrictions cruelly holding back winter supplies. NRC\u2019s director for the region, Angelita Caredda, insists: \u201cMore than\u00a0three\u00a0weeks\u00a0into the ceasefire, Gaza should be receiving a surge of shelter materials, but only a fraction of what is needed has entered.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report states: \u201dMillions of shelter and non-food items are stuck in Jordan, Egypt, and Israel awaiting approvals, leaving around 260,000 Palestinian families, equal to nearly 1.5 million people, exposed to worsening conditions. Since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October, Israeli authorities have rejected twenty-three requests from nine aid agencies to bring in urgently needed shelter supplies such as tents, sealing and framing kits, bedding, kitchen sets, and blankets, amounting to nearly 4,000 pallets. Humanitarian organisations warn that the window to scale up winterisation assistance is closing rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report notes how, despite the ceasefire, Israel has continued its mechanized slaughter and its chokehold on aid.<\/p>\n

In Israel\u2019s +972 Magazine<\/em>, Muhammad Shehada reports<\/a>: \u201cWith the so-called \u2018Yellow Line,\u2019 Israel has divided the Strip in two: West Gaza, encompassing 42 percent of the enclave, where Hamas remains in control and over 2 million people are crammed in; and East Gaza, encompassing 58 percent of the territory, which has been fully depopulated of civilians and is controlled by the Israeli army and four\u00a0proxy gangs.\u201d This last, a reference to four IDF-backed militias<\/a> put forward by Israel as Hamas\u2019 legitimate replacement.<\/p>\n

If ever tallied, the number of corpses buried under Gaza\u2019s flattened buildings may raise the death toll of this genocide into six figures.<\/p>\n

The UN estimates that the amount of rubble in Gaza could build 13 Giza pyramids.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sheer scale of the challenge is staggering,\u201d writes<\/a> Paul Adams for the BBC: \u201cThe UN estimates the cost of damage at \u00a353bn ($70bn). Almost 300,000 houses and apartments have been\u00a0damaged or destroyed, according to the UN\u2019s satellite centre Unosat\u2026The Gaza Strip is littered with 60 million tonnes of rubble, mixed in with dangerous unexploded bombs and dead bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one knows how many corpses are rotting beneath the rubble. These mountains of rubble loom over Israelis working, in advance of global journalism\u2019s return, to create their counternarratives, but also over surviving Gazans who, amidst unrelenting misery, struggle to provide for their surviving loved ones.<\/p>\n

Living in close, unhygienic quarters, sleeping without bedding under torn plastic sheeting, and having scarce access to water, thousands of people are in dire need of supplies to help winterize their living space and spare themselves the dread that their children or they themselves could die of hypothermia. The easiest and most obvious solution to their predicament stands enticingly near: the homes held by their genocidal oppressors.<\/p>\n

In affluent countries, observers like Dan Perry may tremble for Israel\u2019s reputation, eager to rush in and conceal Israel\u2019s crimes, clothing them in self-righteous justifications. These are of course our crimes as well.<\/p>\n

Our own hearts cannot escape the howling winter unless we take, far more seriously, the hell of winter and despair to which we continue to subject Palestinians living in Gaza.<\/p>\n

There is no peace in Gaza. May there be no peace for us until we fix that.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Kathy Kelly <\/i><\/span><\/span>is a member of the <\/span><\/span><\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0board president of World BEYOND War<\/a>,<\/span><\/span><\/em> an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of <\/i><\/span><\/span>Voices in the Wilderness<\/span><\/span>, and currently a co-coordinator <\/i><\/span><\/span>Voices for Creative Nonviolence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Three times since 2000, she has been nominated for the <\/i><\/span><\/span>Nobel Peace Prize.<\/span><\/span> As part of peace teamwork in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US-Iraq wars. Her recent travel has focused on Afghanistan and Gaza, along with domestic protests against U.S. drone policy. She has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of U.S. military bombardment and inmates of U.S. prisons. She lives in Chicago.<\/i><\/span><\/span> kathy@vcnv.org<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> – <\/span><\/span>info@vcnv.org <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>– <\/em>kathy.vcnv@gmail.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

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