While waiting for a final decision to be made whether or not to extend the truce agreed between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, Palestinians live with total uncertainty in the Strip. These days of truce, Gazans have stocked up on fuel for the winter. But it is very scarce, like other essential supplies, not only to get through the winter, but to survive within the absolute catastrophe caused by Israel.

Winter has already entered Gaza and refugees fear the worst. “It started to rain, the roof fell and we had to flee,” says one refugee. And it is that close to 1.7 million Gazans fled from north to south in less than a month. In the middle of the bombs, No time nor means to build “decent” infrastructures in which to survive.

“We are talking about the fact that maybe there are one bathroom for every 150 people or one shower for every 700″, says Daniel Roselló, spokesperson for the Spanish Red Cross in Ramallah. For his part, Chema Vera, director of Unicef ​​Spain, explains that “there is no fuel for heating, hot water or a basic kitchen.” The lack of drinking water has also triggered already too many diseases such as kidney diseases and in such a crowded place, contagion can spread like wildfire.

In Palestine, winter is very cold but the worst is the rain. There are corpses scattered in the streets and those who have been luckier have been buried in gigantic common pits. “They are very shallow and if there are floods, all that would be another ingredient for this humanitarian chaos,” adds Roselló. Furthermore, the famine is already spreading throughout the strip, even more Dantesque scenes are beginning to be seen. “The dogs are eating corpses,” she adds.

The NGOs can’t take it anymore and are asking for a total ceasefire and, above all, for Israel to not advance towards the south, because then they would have nowhere to go or hide. “It is a critical moment to ask Spanish society for all its solidarity,” cries Chema Vera.