Israel Matzav

'Palestinians' blame Israel for Gaza coastal flooding

Thousands of 'Palestinians' were evacuated from their homes in Northern Gaza on Saturday due to flood waters that reached up to two meters high.

Flooding has been so severe that access to many homes is by rowing boat and water is reported to be two meters (more than six feet) high in some places. Many people have been trapped inside inundated homes by rising waters.

The flooding is the result of four days of torrential rains.

"Large swathes of northern Gaza are a disaster area with water as far as the eye can see," the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) that administers refugee camps in the Palestinian territory, said in a statement.

The Gaza health ministry said 100 people had suffered injuries in the severe weather, which damaged poorly built homes in the coastal territory, including from car accidents on flooded roads, and items falling from inundated buildings.

Chris Gunness, an UNRWA spokesman, said areas near a refugee camp in northern Gaza "have become a massive lake with two-meter-high waters engulfing homes and stranding thousands."

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Gaza's 1.8 million people has also been enduring around 12-hour blackouts daily since the lone power plant was switched off last month due to a fuel shortage.

Israel opened a main crossing with Gaza on Friday to allow in fuel supplies and four water pumps to help relieve flood damage.

You would think that with all the billions of dollars that the 'international community' has pumped into the 'impoverished coastal community' someone would have done some flood planning. But no.... Instead, they're blaming Israel.

The Gaza government's Disaster Response Committee announced late Friday that Israeli authorities had opened up dams just east of the Gaza Strip, flooding numerous residential areas in nearby villages within the coastal territory.

Committee chairman Yasser Shanti said in a press conference that Israeli authorities had opened up dams just to the east of the border with the Gaza Strip earlier in the day.

He warned that residential areas within the Gaza Valley would be flooding within the coming hours.

He said that the move by Israeli authorities would flood areas in Moghraqa and other parts of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, and he called upon residents of areas near the Gaza Valley to evacuate their homes in preparation for the anticipated flooding.

The Gaza Strip is currently under a state of emergency due to severe weather conditions caused by a historic storm front moving south across the Levant.

'Dams' east of the Gaza Strip? Where? In the ocean? Morons...


By the way, note that the homes in the picture at the top look pretty fancy, don't they? And you thought that the Gaza Strip is 'impoverished'? Hardly.

One of the most basic functions of government is to ensure proper drainage in the streets. It's precisely the type of function in which the 'Palestinians' take no interest. Instead, they just blame Israel for all of their problems.

But John FN Kerry keeps promising us that 'peace' is at hand. So who am I to argue?

Labels: Gaza plenty, Hamas, Palestinian lies

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:52 AM