Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were displaced today when the Israeli military, with no prior warning, opened a dam and flooded out the Gaza Valley, destroying a number of homes and leaving many under nearly 10 feet of water.
Gaza civil defense officials say the dam was opened without any notification overnight, and forced at least 80 families out of their homes and into a nearby refugee camp. It also destroyed considerable farmland in the area.
The move appears to have been related to significant snowfall in Israel in recent weeks, as Israel decided to get rid of the excess water by opening the floodgates and sending it into the strip. Locals in Gaza say such flooding is not unheard of, and Israel never informs them before such a move.
Civil defense officials went on to warn that while the water would eventually make its way into the Mediterranean Sea, if Israel opens more floodgates before then the water will flood out even more villages and displace even more civilians.
Doesn't seem there anything the israelis are willing to do to cause suffering to Palestinians.
Just another crime against humanity which the Zionist scum
occupying Palestine (won't) have to answer for.
darn typos. there's…aren't…
Israel is a natural disaster and should be fought and stopped at any cost. The world cannot afford this cancerous growth anymore.
Zionist Nazi !!!! at work again. Destruction of this evil entity should be priority for Mankind. No ISIS, no Russia, no Korea…..but Zionist entity is the biggest danger for HUMANITY!!!! Pedro CR
It is Israeli policy to wash the Palestinians into the sea with the melting snow for the unspeakable crime of being Christians or Muslims.
On the one hand, I dislike the way Israel exerts such an insanely outsized influence on US foreign policy.
On the other hand, when I see people claiming that a tiny nation of 8,000 square miles and 8 million people is "the biggest danger for HUMANITY!!!" and "should be fought and stopped at any cost," it's hard not to conclude that the reason for such irrational hysterics has something to do with dislike for Jews.
Are you serious? Purposefully, flooding out civilians with no warning or compensation is a crime worthy of that of the Nazis. To say nothing of the land-thefts, apartheid system, confiscation of Palestinian tax revenues, bombing innocent civilians with cluster bombs and white phosphorus, seizing kids out of their homes at night, etc., etc. These are not irrational hysterics – they are the reasonable responses of morally outraged people. Your heart, sir, must be made of stone.
U heartless idiot
Everyone who's been paying attention knows that the irrational USG and its group of ankle-biting poodles are "the biggest danger for HUMANITY!!!"
If you only knew what Israel has been up to with its illegal nuclear weapons program that has amassed over 100 nuclear bombs.
terrorism is a modern phenomenon, it was first put in to practice by the Zionist in Palestine, on the idea that do to the new communications technology and news media a group can achieve vastly greater results if it is magnified by catching the ears of this new communication network, and to make sure it was reported they target those who it would be impossible to ignore, mainly high ranking British officers,
you can argue that other groups have been using terrorism before the Zionist movement, but this is not really the case, assassination and covert attacks have always taken place.
but they are all focused on the target, you kill a high rank official so that there is a dead high ranking official for revenge, to send a message to the regime or as a strategic asset removed the target was the target.
the difference with terrorist is that it assumes the world is watching and listening, and that a single act can galvanize large sections of the world opinion(at least the world plugged in to the only real news services available at the time)and so Zionist targeted British officers not because they were British officers but because that would be the most "news worthy item"
yassar arafat perfected the idea when after successfully hijacking five planes landing them in Jordan releasing all the hostages unharmed and blowing up the planes on television so destabilized the Jordanian government that it brought about black September and almost toppled the Jordanian goverment along with pulling Israel and Syria in to the conflict.
the fact that the world is so focused on this little region that has long practiced and perfect the idea of terrorism is not hard to figure out, terrorism is the modern media plain and simple.
magnify or ignoring this or that at will and remaking the world.
cant spend seventy years trying to magnify yourself in the media and then wonder why things are out of proportions.
im as tired of israel in the news as anyone, at the start of the obama administration we were talking about a permanent settlement freeze and full negotiations. 8 years laters we have news editors bohooing the fact that people are concerned that no one cares that israel is drowning the people it was supposedly going to grant qausi-independence almost a decade ago.
Israel has unfortunately destroyed antisemitism.
its very hard to argue irrational hatred of what should rationally be hated, and its hard to say there is a difference between israel and jews when most jews do proclaim very loudly their support for israel.
well that and the fact that people all over the world seem to be moving towards and not away from religion makes for a very bleak future for athiest antizionist jews such as myself.
/superrant
p.s. a comment on the actual article: isnt this what america launched an air campaign to prevent happening at the mosul dam?
Well duuuh.
To except a thing as absolute — This is light that forces all darkness to give way
For example, it is absolute, Israel was created in 1948 for but one purpose, to terrorize the Middle-East into trading war materials for oil.
So, it must also be absolute that our Empire uses Israel to kill, slaughter and terrorize Palestine for such criminal profit, the whole profit and nothing but maximum bomb explosions for profit.
Isn't this region of the world in critical need of water? Don't they need to conserve this water for when the dry season comes? To deliberately waste it, causing villages to flood and ruining precious farmland is indeed a crime against humanity.
It is a crime against Mother Earth, too. The US and all nations share this bad karma
This is considered normal, I suppose; israel is allowed to get away with anything, while any peep from a Palestinian and it is "terrorism".
free swimming for the orks !
There is no dam capable of this in Israel south of Galilee, in the very north of the country. There are no operable dams in the South of Israel, only a couple of very low diversion dams (barely more than a meter high.) The flooding, which happens periodically, is the result of very heavy precipitation in the last few days, and has nothing to do with any action of Israel. If this town needs flood control, why doesn't the Hamas government build it, instead of using all the concrete and rebar to build tunnels into Israel? This entire article is nothing but a piece of lying Palestinian propaganda.
I'm sure will see more on this on CNN and other MSM.
/sarcasm
And by the way, you filthy liars, why is Israel listed on this map as "Israeli occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian interim agreement- permanent status to be determined through further negotiation"- I notice you provided no similar qualification for Gaza or Egypt. This pretty well shows that you are utterly lacking in any objectivity and cannot be regarded as credible in any way.
I forwarded this to someone who responded that I should't forward this article unless I know for sure that it is true. Israel denies doing this. How do I know who is telling the truth? Is there an unimpeachable source on this story?
It’s one thing to hate Israel because you feel bad for Arabs.
It’s another when you hate Israel because you are stupid enough to believe all lies the Arabs throw at you.
THERE ARE NO DAMS OR CANALS AROUND GAZA. IT’S ARID.
GAZA IS FLOODED BECAUSE HAMAS STOLE ALL THE MONEY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE.
What an awful situation for these people. However, this is not in fact the cause of any actions by Israel as THERE ARE NO DAMS IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL. The flooding was caused by heavy rainfall, not deliberate actions of Israel. All the major media outlets have since back flipped on this story with very red faces for publishing something so erroneous without first fact-checking.
This displacement is definitely awful, but the floods are due to weather, not the opening of dams, as there are not any in Southern Israel. Most article headline and content related to this topic, like Al Jazeera's, have been changed accordingly.
It's amazing that no one checks facts and all this hatred is based on lies. There is no dam. The flooding is a natural occurrence.
Somebody, someone bothered by facts on this board?
Yeah, right.
There are no dams in the south of Israel. This whole article is false. Do your facts check or stop acting like you're a journalist!
Such hatred here. Truth is, this story is a lie.
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http://goo.gl/bZUJUdThis one-sided article is lies from start to finish. Israel has no dams in the south. The south is a desert with no water falling there, and as Israel obtains most of its fresh water by desalinating water drawn from the Mediterranean, a very expensive process, the last thing they’re going to do is put it in reservoirs in a desert where it will rapidly evaporate, and they’re certainly not going to release it in order to spite Gaza. But don’t take my word for it. Go onto Google Earth and find the dams in the Negev Desert. If you can.