A three-month-old baby has died after exposure to bitter winter cold in Gaza, a place where families now endure the season without reliable shelter, heat or power. Local health workers said the infant was found unresponsive at home, the latest loss in a string of weather-related deaths that underscore how daily life has been stripped to survival under a genocidal war. With fuel scarce and homes damaged or destroyed, parents are forced to improvise warmth while food queues stretch on, and malnutrition compounds the danger for the youngest and weakest.

Aid workers on the ground describe a population trapped between freezing nights and shuttered services, as restrictions continue to limit the entry of equipment needed to generate electricity and create communal heating points. Thousands of patients remain unable to access specialised treatment, including many children, while evacuation routes for medical care beyond Gaza remain largely closed. The result is a slow, preventable toll that winter merely accelerates, turning cold into a killer where protection should exist.

Beyond Gaza, pressure has intensified across the West Bank. Recent months have seen rising fatalities and injuries, alongside a surge in settler violence and a sharp increase in forced displacement. Entire families have been pushed from their homes, with children making up a significant share of those uprooted. Live ammunition and aerial strikes account for most deaths, while raids and property destruction continue to hollow out communities, deepening a climate of fear and instability amid the same genocidal war.

In occupied East Jerusalem, rights monitors warn that historic Palestinian neighbourhoods are being emptied at an accelerating pace. Demolitions and evictions have concentrated in areas close to the Old City, where homes are seized or transferred to settlers and urban projects advance at residents’ expense. International legal rulings have deemed such practices unlawful, citing prohibitions on forcible transfer, yet the measures persist. For those affected, the pattern is unmistakable: displacement by design, carried out steadily while the world debates, and families are left to face winter nights without a home.