SIR – I have just made a donation for a storm-battered Gaza to the US-based, Jewish Voice for Peace. “Due to the ongoing siege” (their words) of Gaza: “a lack of electricity, heating oil, portable water, sewage facilities, and garbage collection are exacerbating the conditions of an environmental disaster.”

Tens of thousands are still homeless. At least three infants and one man have frozen to death and others have died in fires as a result of having been forced to rely on unsafe heat sources.

Imad, a nurse who hasn’t been paid for a year, was asked how he and his family survive: “...everyone in Gaza does what they can to help each other!’ The guns may be silent, but the illegal collective punishment continues.

John Hall, Pennithorne Avenue, Baildon