Analysis

UN says Israel is blocking 150,000 tents from Gaza, as occupation creates floods

The United Nations reports that the number of tens the Israeli occupation is blocking at the Gaza border has reached 150,000. Western ‘mainstream’ reporting on the UN’s announcement is focusing on Israel’s claims that it is “not to blame” for the flooding and destruction of more than 70,000 tents and shelters in the first major winter storm.

Screenshot of a social media post criticising an Associated Press headline about Netanyahu denying blame for conditions in Gaza camps.

But it’s more than that…

But Israel’s guilt for the Gaza flooding is far more direct than blocking tents. As Skwawkbox reported exclusively two days ago, the occupation military and its contractors are building earthworks – ‘berms’ – specifically to route rainwater into the low-lying concentration camp where it has penned Gaza’s Palestinians. This is an explicitly genocidal act.

And if they leave those areas to escape the floods – they are killed.

Israel is a terror state and there are no depths to which it will not stoop. Zionism is racism.

Header image is a still from a Human Rights Watch report.

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