"They call it peace, but in storm-tossed Gaza, it looks like purgatory

After the war, came the storm.

- Steve Bloomfield International Editor

Over the past few days, Storm Byron has ripped through Gaza, flooding damaged houses and destroying flimsy tents. It’s not a hurricane, just bad weather. Anywhere else in the world — like, say, Israel - there would be no casualties. But after two years of almost every building being pummeled into rubble, Gaza is different.Two children died from the cold, a baby died after rainwater leaked into the family’s tent, and two more deaths were caused by a wall collapsing on to tents.

Except, of course, it’s not really after the war. It is now nine weeks since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed, but aside from the return of Israeli hostages and the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, little has changed.

Israel is still regularly launching attacks inside Gaza. At the start of this month, the official death toll ticked over to 70,000. Among the dead were two brothers - aged eight and 11 - who were killed when an Israeli drone struck close to a school where people were sheltering.

The promised delivery of at least 600 trucks of aid a day has not been met once. Some UN and commercial trucks are allowed by Israel to enter each day, but nowhere near enough.