Which is better: to die under air attack or humidity and cold in a flooded tent? From an artillery shell or from a lack of medicine and medical treatment?
After surviving the bombing, should a Palestinian in Gaza ask for permission to survive the winter?
And then wait again for the treatment and medication needed to survive?
In Gaza, the threats to life multiply faster than the means of protection.
Israeli shelling, collapsing buildings, flooded displacement camps, unstable sand banks and severely depleted medical equipment continue to threaten the Palestinians.
But the most basic conditions for survival—safe housing, essential medicine, and protection from violence—remain dependent on decisions made far beyond Gaza's borders.
More than a year after the ceasefire came into effect, the question remains: Has the war really stopped, or have the ways in which the Palestinians deal with death simply increased?