Gaza flooding is a catastrophe by design - and the spineless West is complicit

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Gaza flooding is a catastrophe by design - and the spineless West is complicit Submitted by David Hearst on Wed, 11/11/2026 - 19:01 Israel and its backers are right to keep calm…

It’s a great time to be a war criminal. You can trade your stolen gold in Dubai and bank your money there, no questions asked. You can do your Christmas shopping on Oxford Street, or maybe catch a West End musical. The Metropolitan Police will not bother you.

When one war finishes, another soon beckons. Consider yourself a travelling salesman. From Yemen, to Sudan, and now to Tigray, your services will always be in demand.

You can even get a lucrative gig on US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, and news programmes will be queuing up to interview you.

Of one thing you can be sure: you will never face justice. The Nuremberg Trials and The Hague were so last century.

So forgive me for asking one question, in the blizzard of feverish speculation that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are about to be thrown out of the White House and Beit Aghion respectively: what has changed?

Nahla al-Majdoub, 48, carries a wound sustained when her intestines were shredded by shrapnel from a missile. She is in constant pain, and the cold is making it worse. Her tent was destroyed in the recent storms.

She needs 170 shekels ($53) a week to pay for her medication. Her seven-year-old daughter has diabetes, Majdoub told Middle East Eye.

“I woke up soaking wet. I looked at my children, who were also wet and surrounded by water. We cried helplessly, not knowing what to do or how to protect them,” she said. Eventually, the wind blew her tent away altogether.

“I am sorry that my family’s biggest dream now is just to have a strong tent that can withstand heavy rain and protect us from the cold,” she said.

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