The winter storm tearing through Gaza has exposed a brutal truth the world keeps avoiding: Palestinians are not just victims of weather, they are victims of policy. Flooded tents, collapsing buildings, and families submerged in mud are the direct consequences of systematic destruction and forced displacement.
This is what happens when homes are flattened, infrastructure erased, and over a million people are pushed into open land with nothing but plastic sheets for shelter. Rain turns tents into traps. Cold turns displacement into a slow execution. Children shiver where bedrooms once stood. The sick suffocate beneath rubble weakened by bombs, not storms.
To call this a natural disaster is a lie. Nature did not blockade Gaza. Nature did not deny fuel, building materials, or emergency aid. Nature did not make civilians homeless in the dead of winter. These conditions were engineered, enforced, and sustained.
International law is unambiguous: civilians must be protected. Yet Gaza’s people are abandoned to floodwaters while powerful nations issue statements instead of action.
When rain becomes lethal, responsibility is clear. Gaza was not overwhelmed by a storm. It was left to drown.
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