The Israeli occupation in Gaza is building berms – raised earthen barriers – to maximise the amount of water swamping refugee tents. Winter storms have been blamed for horrific scenes of flooding that destroyed or inundated more than 70,000 tents and shelters this month. But according to locals able to see the occupation military’s activities, the floods are not just happening, but instead have been deliberately engineered.
Weaponised rain
Winter storms and floods have made the lives of Gaza’s Palestinians a misery since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in 2023. But the 2026 floods have swamped flimsy tents and shelters to extreme levels and extents:
The UK government calls this a “humanitarian situation”, as if it is an act of God or of nature. But this is no accident. Locals say that Israeli military and contractor bulldozers have heaped up berms to channel rising waters specifically onto the desperate, starving refugees – many of them children – to intentionally make life in the Strip untenable. This, in and of itself, is an act of genocide.
The Genocide Convention makes this clear, listing as one of its five qualifiers for genocide – only one needs to be met for genocide to be committed:
deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
The colonisers want Gaza – and they have weaponised even rain to make Gaza unliveable for its indigenous, rightful owners.
More to follow on this story. Israel is a terror state.
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