Iran has censured Western media outlets for not covering Israel’s "silent genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where heavy rain floods displaced families’ makeshift shelters.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the criticism in an X post on Thursday, a few days after thousands of Palestinians lost their tents and belongings as rainfall and strong winds began lashing Gaza, causing damaged buildings to collapse across the besieged territory which has been leveled to the ground by the occupying regime.

“The disastrous situation in Gaza is no longer making headlines in Western media,” he said.

“A Silent Genocide is going on with almost zero attention. It is shameful. And an indication that Israel has succeeded in one aspect of its effort to start wars to divert attention on failures.”

From the evening of November 6 through the weekend, torrential rain hit the Gaza Strip, submerging 70,000 tents and affecting approximately 350,000 people.

On Sunday, three children and two women were killed after the collapse of a rain-soaked sand bank overlooking a displacement camp south of the city of Deir al-Balah. 

The impact of the weather is compounded by wartime destruction in Gaza, where most people remain displaced, and an estimated 65 percent live in tents or makeshift shelters – that is 1.4 million people. 

Meanwhile, Israel is blocking humanitarian aid into the besieged territory in defiance of calls to allow the entry of essential winter supplies.

Bashar Murad, director of health programs at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip, warned of a worsening health and humanitarian situation amid freezing temperatures and a lack of medicines, winter clothing, and heating equipment.

He said that the mixing of rainwater with sewage in displacement camps threatens to spread diseases, infections and epidemics.

Report: 564k Gaza children living in ‘critical or catastrophic’ shelter conditions

An estimated 564,000 children in the besieged Gaza Strip are now living in ’critical or catastrophic’ shelter conditions

The Israeli regime waged the Gaza genocide on October 7, 2023, after the resistance group Hamas carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in response to the Israeli regime’s atrocities against Palestinians.

Two years later, however, Israel was forced to agree to a ceasefire after it failed to achieve declared objectives.

Since then, Israel has violated the truce with near-daily attacks on Gaza. It has killed a total of 74,609 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 175,872 others over the past more than three years.