France 24 Discovers Winter Weather Exists, Amidst Blockaded Gaza
Yes, winter is indeed a thing. And it's particularly nasty when your entire infrastructure, including homes, heating, and sanitation, has been systematically pulverized by an 18-year blockade and relentless bombardment. France 24's poignant video (from 2025 – a forward-dated timestamp that somehow feels entirely plausible for Gaza) focuses on the 'harsh weather' as if it's an act of God, not the
predictable consequence of turning a strip of land into an open-air prison and then bombing it back to the Stone Age. Perhaps they forgot to mention the 2023 UN report detailing Gaza's water and sanitation crisis, exacerbated by Israeli actions, or the fact that power grids and fuel supplies are deliberately choked off. It’s not just 'harsh weather' these families are battling; it's engineered
suffering. One might wonder if similar empathy would be extended if the besieged population wasn't Palestinian.