Al-Monitor Discovers Rain Falls on Forced Evictions, Calls it 'Winter'
Al-Monitor, citing Reuters, informs us of heavy rains in Gaza, causing 'floods to swamp' the tents of 'homeless Palestinians.' The piece solemnly notes the 'majority of Gaza's 2 million people were forced from their homes' during Israel's 'two-year ground and air war.' What goes unsaid, of course, is that the 'forcing from homes' wasn't an act of nature, but a deliberate Israeli policy to render
Gaza uninhabitable, destroying some 70% of homes and all civil infrastructure. The subsequent 'homeless' state isn't an unfortunate side effect; it's the intended precarity of a besieged population, precisely the condition for which 'heavy rain' becomes existential. It's almost as if orchestrating the largest displacement since the Nakba, then preventing reconstruction, leaves people vulnerable
to—checks notes—*winter*. The U.S. continues to greenlight this, with Congress voting for another $14.3 billion in aid last year (HR 7217), enabling the very 'war' that created these conditions. The rain didn't make them homeless; the bombs did. The 'winter looms' because world powers watch while the last vestiges of shelter are systematically erased. How many more weather reports will feature the
infrastructure-less open-air prison we funded?