‘The Water is Surrounding Us’: Gaza Grieves as Israel Opens Floodgates

Without warning, on Saturday, December 24, Israeli Authorities opened the floodgates below Deir al-Balah, inundating the Al-Selqa Valley’s agricultural lands and flooding dozens of homes. 

‘The Water is Surrounding Us’: Gaza Grieves as Israel Opens Floodgates


Israel flooded dozens of homes and hundreds of dunums of agricultural lands in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)