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The UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA on Thursday evening declared a state of emergency in Gaza City amid massive rains that have shut down normal life in the city, Ma’an reported. This could also mean damage to the hundreds of underground tunnels that are still being dug fastidiously by Hamas, in preparation for the next war.
Thursday marks the fourth straight day of unusually heavy rain across the region, causing temperatures to dip across the coastal region.
In early November, the Egyptian army launched a program to destroy newly discovered hundreds of tunnels leading from Gaza into the Sinai, which had been used by Gaza jihadists to attack Egyptian security forces. In only a matter of days, the Egyptians cleared 10,000 residents from about 800 homes along the strip’s southern border, to erect an 8-mile buffer where anyone entering would be shot without a warning.
Unlike Israel, the Egyptians can be decisive on fighting terrorism, and they don’t catch international flak for it, either.
Since Israel evacuated its military and civilians from Gaza, in 2005, the PLO and then the Hamas governments have not invested a penny in upgrading the sewer systems and the roads, and so each rainy season sees the strip sitting under lakes of water and human waste. The major storm that brought a blessing to Israel this past week has filled the streets of Gaza City once again with water and sewage, causing further misery for the more than 100,000 Palestinians left homeless, including an estimated 30,000 in emergency shelters.
UNRWA announced that 63 schools across Gaza City and 43 schools across the northern Gaza Strip had been closed Thursday due to the flooding.
Hundreds of residents in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City had also been evacuated due to the rise of a “storm water lagoon” that had flooded many homes in the area.
“The flooding is exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza caused by blockade and the unprecedented destruction from the latest Israeli offensive,” the UN agency said in a post on its Facebook page.
Back in 2013, Egyptian forces flooded the tunnels under the border with the Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down. A Reuters reporter saw one tunnel suddenly fill with water, sending workers rushing for safety. Locals said two other tunnels were also flooded, as the Egyptians were deliberately pumping in water.
“The Egyptians have opened the water to drown the tunnels,” Abu Ghassan, who supervised the work of 30 men at one tunnel, 200 yards from the border, told Reuters. And an Egyptian security official in the Sinai told Reuters: “We are using water to close the tunnels by raising water from one of the wells.”
But when it rains heavily, as it did this week, Gaza is prone to severe flooding, leading to the displacement of thousands. The floods are exacerbated by a chronic lack of fuel that limits how much water can be pumped out of flood-stricken areas.
Which means that the effect the Egyptians achieved by diverting well water into the tunnels is now achieved by natural forces.
The tunnels into Israel were constructed using the expertise of the Rafah families who have specialized in digging tunnels into Egypt for commerce and smuggling, and have been described by former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya as representative of “a new strategy in confronting the occupation and in the conflict with the enemy from underground and from above the ground.”
The Israeli military has estimated that Hamas spent as much as $90 million, pouring 600,000 tons of concrete, in building three dozen tunnels. Some of these tunnels were estimated to have cost $3 million to construct.
Excellent news! Allahu akbar!
God knows how to drown rats LOL
Good drown those Evildoers.
God can remove persistent problems when man’s ingenuity fails.
before they were sewage conduits, they were sewage conduits – God does have a sense of humor
Hand of god
May the rain also ruin their weapons and other provisions
The EU will help repair them
The EU will help repair them
Great! I hope that all of the rats drown!
Those Damn Jew’s causing it to rain again!!!! LOL
Karma?
Yipppeeee and todah rabah HaShem.
GOD IS IN CONTROL!!! ALL THE TIME!!!
I dunno. Fill them with Hamas and wait a week to see how it goes.
Btw. That was out tax dollars that built those. Literally down the drain instead of building a civil society
God at work protecting his children
Good
Just watch where the water goes
Hopefully a lot of Hamas stooges were in them when they flooded.
Well we can but hope it is so
I hope they collapse while occupied.
The rains help to destroy the devilish tunnels of our ennemies
The rains help to destroy the devilish tunnels of our ennemies
This is what our tax money went for. Another stupid move by Obama and Kerry
G-d help hi people from sky
wouldn’t that be horrible?
Too bad
Thank God for the rain, do you think allah will get the hint!!!! ….. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>
God works in mysteries ways
Good.
Don’t be too optimistic: the tunnel entries are inside houses, not in the streets. And guess whom they’re blaming for the flooding?
God works in mysterious ways. Shalom
God works in mysterious ways. Shalom
Love it love it love it !!!
Love it love it love it !!!
Stock them with alligators. If there are Hamas survivors down there. They'll never know the difference — until it's too late! — LOL.
G-d removes pests anytime!
Israel could do the same as the Egyptians did with the water.
Praise the Lord!
What a pity! Thanks HaShem.
…. that is what they do with re-build money …. good for them 🙂
It’s God’s will, or maybe it’s Allah’s.
Clearly a case where bad weather is good news.
The Almighty always knows how to judge the ones who touch His chosen ones
We can ALWAYS count on God.
G-d likes floods.
Morons. 3million can feed tens of thousands
Good. Rain on.
Let it rain, let it RAIN, LET IT RAIN!
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain!!!!
Hopefully so. Hopefully the water leaks out revealing the tunnels.
God works in ways that are beyond our comprehension
Yay!
Should be flooded with colored gas to identify their openings…then level whatever is on top of them.
May they cave in on the bastards
http://youtu.be/sdAihFAJM-A We're celebrating. May it rain this way again once every 2nd week!
Allah has provided, for Israel 🙂
Good!
I always thought IDF shouldood the tunnels
Flood
How much of that $90 million came from the International Community expecting it would be used for peaceful purposes and infrastructure improvements?
that was my first thought too.
drown em all!
What a news!!!!
Drown mother er
Maybe there is God after all?
I hope so
With a bit of luck,
at least one thing is working well there ….
amen drown those rats
God fights for Israel.
Thanks God for protect your people.
Fitting retribution.
Praise God!
Hope it backs into their homes!
Let us hope so. Drown a few too.
Lol hope the fuk ers drown in sewerage.
GOD WORKS IN HIS OWN WAY…GOD BLESS ISRAEL
Millions of UN and Obama Dollars down the Drain… Hope the Rats Drown!
More rain is a blessing!
We can only hope and that they cave in.
Good, so they have the money for tunnels, I guess the financial crisis is Gaza is over!
Perhaps you could discover them more easily after the rain with aerial photography due to difference in evaporation, soil humidity.
happy swim
Imagine if all the money and expertise had gone into making the lives of everyone living there better and more productive. Imagine how rich their lives would be. The still could be… if Hamas would let it happen.
HAMAS BLAMES ISRAEL FOR MASSIVE RAIN POUR 😛 karma.
Baruch HaShem
God’s Plan to those who trying to destroy Israel.
No ammunition can outdo God !
I said the same thing
Its strange they haven’t blamed Israel for the rainy weather …because rains have indeed dampened the palestinian terrorists’ plans…
and may they all cave in , let God arrise and let His enemys be scattered .
Yes!!! Let the rats die!
not rats,,,pigs !!!!! of the world !!!
Blow up the enemy
we have an AWESOME GOD.
More rain pls
Ashem always work
Fill them with pig
What goes atound….comes around
Baruch Hashem!!!!!
This story has taken on biblical proportions. The very tunnels used to ferry jihadist into the land of Israel are now flooded. Irony of Ironies. G-d has spoken.
I just hope that some of the human rats drown down there. That would be a great day. Allah Akbar
Let the floods drown the Hamas beasts.
Definitely God’s intervention. No weapon formed against us will prosper.
I HOPEE G’D MAKES RAIN FALL IN GAZA NON STOP
God is great
Best news I've heard in ages – they should stay flooded forever
Plant some IEDs in the water. Let's see what grows.
100%. It is being used for peaceful purposes. The terrorists can't use it to harm Israel.
Not only the rats but also the terrorists. Is that the same thing?
May the tunnel dwellers drown in peace.
Divine intervention. Don't be too shocked if they ask the Israelis for help to pump the water out.
oh i would help it out by shoving water canons in them
and using the sewage from homes and buisness to fill them up
flack be damned i would start doing the same in Israel.
we all know there doing it there as well
I just hope the water collapses all of the tunnels. 😀
Maybe UNRWA could just place their headquarters in the main tunnel of Gaza and then you wouldn't need any more sewers…
Israel should pump it's sewage into the tunnels that come out in her land.
IT'S A GOD HAPPENING TERRORISTS TUNNELS ARE FLOODED
Israel should pump it's sewage into the tunnels that come out in her land.
Hamas have tunnel vision!!!!!!!
Let it rain let it rain lol. israel
UNWRA imports the cement? How, then, does it find its way into Hamas's hands? Something amiss with regulatory practices, I think.
The Almighty is stretching his arm. Did anyone including the UN, EU and the rest of the world, think that if all the Gaza'n people and their government would be real good neighbors as the should be that the tunnels would become obsolete as then all the border crossings would be permanently open with no special restrictions with open seaways and so on? And that includes the Egyptian one as well and all the homes that were just cleared by them would still be standing. So really WHO IS TO BLAME?
Rian, Rain . Rain. Now that is an act of God on the Genocidal Muslims !!!
Rats with two legs
"Rain, rain, never go away
Flood the Terror Tunnels every day!"
You sound like a politician. What office are you running for?
There is enough sewage on the builders side of the tunnels.
We must all pray that HASHEM gives Gaza so much water, that all the tunnels will be flooded with sewer water,. I hope that Hamas becomes so thirsty that they will drink all the sewer water.
That is all they are worthy of.
May all those tunnels cave in from the weight of the water.
Please HASHEM, don't stop the flooding for at least 10 days, May those sewr rats, Hamas all drown in the sewer tunnels
kol hakavod
very simple.
Chris Gunnes helped them build the tunnels. That swine is responsible for the war and all the damage.
He should be arrested and charged with the murder of Gazan population.
Lets not forget that the world will blame the those nasty damn Jews for praying for rain.
And the true GOD of the Jews, obliged
good may the rats drown
they should be dead
Once the tunnels are flooded, drop an electric power cable, or two, to keep any would be terrorist from trying to dive and conduct mischievous behavior.
Love it.
Rain down
You KNOW, however, that Israel will be blamed for the rain!
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