{"id":36640,"date":"2025-12-12T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/storm-byron-kills-newborns-and-buries-families-as-gazas-bombed-ruins-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:09:02","slug":"storm-byron-kills-newborns-and-buries-families-as-gazas-bombed-ruins-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/storm-byron-kills-newborns-and-buries-families-as-gazas-bombed-ruins-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Byron kills newborns and buries families as Gaza\u2019s bombed ruins collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5822042.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 The skeletal remains of Gaza\u2019s neighborhoods have become a site of renewed tragedy as Storm Byron batters the enclave, claiming over a dozen lives since Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The dead include women and newborns, victims of a catastrophic intersection between extreme weather and a man-made humanitarian desert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">According to the Ministry of Interior, the toll is rising as gale-force winds and torrential rains trigger the collapse of structures previously fractured by months of Israeli bombardment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In the harrowing early hours of Thursday, a newborn froze to death in the al-Mawasi area, while another infant succumbed to the cold in the Shati refugee camp on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">These are not merely weather-related casualties; they are the direct result of a landscape stripped of its defenses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Since October 2023, Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has killed over 70,000, decimated over 60% of the enclave\u2019s housing, and obliterated its civil infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Now, around 1.9 million homeless Palestinians are forced to shelter in the ruins of bombed-out apartments or flimsy tents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Over 27,000 of these tents have been swept away or submerged in what UNRWA\u2019s Jonathan Fowler describes as \u201clakes of untreated sewage\u201d caused by the systematic destruction of sanitation networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The crisis is exacerbated by a calculated blockade on \u201cwinterization\u201d materials. Despite thousands of tons of aid sitting at the border, Israeli authorities continue to bar the entry of timber, tarps, and heavy-duty tents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This \u201cpolitical choice,\u201d as Fowler calls it, has left the population in a state of total vulnerability. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem characterized the deaths as a \u201ccontinuation of the war of extermination,\u201d noting that the storm is completing the destruction initiated by the bombs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">With over 4,300 distress calls received in 24 hours and rescuers digging through rubble with bare hands, Gaza\u2019s winter has become the latest frontier in a relentless campaign of attrition.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/521547\/Storm-Byron-kills-newborns-and-buries-families-as-Gaza-s-bombed\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 The skeletal remains of Gaza\u2019s neighborhoods have become a site of renewed tragedy as Storm Byron batters the enclave, claiming over a dozen lives since Wednesday. The dead include women and newborns, victims of a catastrophic intersection between extreme weather and a man-made humanitarian desert. 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