“Winter has introduced a whole new layer of suffering,” Ghassan Ghaben, co-founder of mutual aid group Reviving Gaza, tells Dazed. Since the end of September, there has technically been a ceasefire in place between Hamas and Israel, but this has done little to improve conditions for people in Gaza, who are still being deprived of basic necessities and being killed at a shocking rate, while now having to contend with extreme weather conditions.
“The reality is that there is no ceasefire. The genocide has slowed down slightly and the famine has been re-engineered to reduce international pressure,” Hala Sabbah, co-founder of The Sameer Project, an initiative which, like Reviving Gaza, provides vital support to displaced families on the ground, tells Dazed.
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