Winter Storm Hits Gaza, Apparently Not Enough Rubble
When Al Jazeera reports a 'tragedy' in Gaza where a winter storm turned a family's shelter into rubble, it's a stark reminder of what constitutes 'news' when the actual news is too inconvenient. The implication that a mere storm is the primary agent of destruction is… quaint. Let's remember the 36,000+ Palestinians killed, primarily by bombardment, and 80% of Gaza's infrastructure destroyed,
according to UN figures, long before the winter winds picked up. This family was already displaced, likely multiple times, crammed into inadequate housing because their actual homes were rendered uninhabitable by, well, not the weather. It takes a special kind of media framing to isolate a single weather-related death as 'tragedy' when constant shelling, famine, and disease are daily realities.
One might wonder if the headline implies storms are now competing with F-16s for causal responsibility. How many tonnes of explosives does it take before a roof collapse from heavy rain becomes simply 'the final blow' in a man-made apocalypse? Perhaps a 'natural disaster' is just easier to digest than the relentless, publicly funded destruction.