{"version":"1.9","identifier":"3ac66085-7e48-4187-a8a1-900864823505","language":"en-US","title":"Board of Peace calls Israel's Gaza flood response 'insufficient' and tells Hamas to disarm","layout":{"columns":7,"width":1024,"margin":32,"gutter":20},"componentLayouts":{"text":{"columnStart":0,"columnSpan":7,"maximumContentWidth":720,"margin":{"top":12,"bottom":12}},"photo":{"columnStart":0,"columnSpan":7,"margin":{"top":20,"bottom":20}}},"componentTextStyles":{"default":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":18,"lineHeight":29,"textColor":"#171717"},"headline":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue-Bold","fontSize":36,"lineHeight":42,"conditional":[{"conditions":{"maxViewportWidth":480},"fontSize":28,"lineHeight":34}]},"intro":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":20,"lineHeight":28,"textColor":"#555555"},"caption":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":13,"lineHeight":19,"textColor":"#666666"},"byline":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":13,"lineHeight":20,"textColor":"#666666"},"body":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":18,"lineHeight":29,"paragraphSpacingAfter":14,"linkStyle":{"textColor":"#00704a"}}},"metadata":{"canonicalURL":"https://567politics.com/news/palestine-board-of-peace-israel-gaza-flood-response-insufficient-hamas-disarm-rejects-november-2026","datePublished":"2026-11-09T20:22:51.029747Z","dateModified":"2026-11-09T20:23:32.396602Z","authors":["567 Politics staff"],"excerpt":"Hamas rejects the statement as blaming the wrong side. Israel says 91,000 tents have entered and half of approved aid requests wait on the UN and aid groups.","thumbnailURL":"https://pub-fac99da959e344fe99d810d309cef7df.r2.dev/photos/article/3ac66085-7e48-4187-a8a1-900864823505/a391ed5ea2e4b596c311646a8c294606.jpg","keywords":["ps"],"generatorName":"Frog News","generatorVersion":"1.0"},"components":[{"role":"title","text":"Board of Peace calls Israel's Gaza flood response 'insufficient' and tells Hamas to disarm","textStyle":"headline","layout":"text"},{"role":"intro","text":"Hamas rejects the statement as blaming the wrong side. Israel says 91,000 tents have entered and half of approved aid requests wait on the UN and aid groups.","textStyle":"intro","layout":"text"},{"role":"byline","text":"By 567 Politics staff · Published November 9, 2026","textStyle":"byline","layout":"text"},{"role":"photo","URL":"https://pub-fac99da959e344fe99d810d309cef7df.r2.dev/photos/article/3ac66085-7e48-4187-a8a1-900864823505/a391ed5ea2e4b596c311646a8c294606.jpg","caption":"Nickolay Mladenov (left), the Board of Peace's High Representative for Gaza, with European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica in Brussels on July 14, 2026. · European Commission Audiovisual Service / Claudio Centonze, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","accessibilityCaption":"Nickolay Mladenov (left), the Board of Peace's High Representative for Gaza, with European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica in Brussels on July 14, 2026.","layout":"photo"},{"role":"caption","text":"Nickolay Mladenov (left), the Board of Peace's High Representative for Gaza, with European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica in Brussels on July 14, 2026. · European Commission Audiovisual Service / Claudio Centonze, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","textStyle":"caption","layout":"text"},{"role":"body","format":"markdown","text":"The Board of Peace, the body set up to oversee U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, said on Monday that Israel's response to weekend flooding in the Gaza Strip \"remains insufficient.\" In the same statement, it told Hamas to disarm and hand over power without further delay. Hamas rejected the statement hours later, saying it ignored Israel's role in blocking the plan. Israel's military said it has already let in more than 91,000 tents. It said about half of the aid requests it approved are still waiting on the UN and aid groups.\n\nThe exchange follows heavy rain that flooded tent camps across Gaza over the weekend. A woman and three children were killed on Sunday night at a displacement camp south of Deir al-Balah. A sand embankment collapsed onto their tents, [Israel National News reported](https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435917), citing Reuters. The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said aid groups had received requests for help from more than 26,000 households whose shelters or belongings were damaged. Earlier on Monday, 567politics [reported on the floods and the dispute over shelter supplies](https://567politics.com/news/palestine-gaza-storm-floods-tents-ocha-cogat-shelter-dispute-november-2026).\n\n## What the Board of Peace said\n\n\"The situation no longer represents simply a threat posed by the approaching winter, but an immediate humanitarian emergency,\" the Board said, according to [Anadolu Agency](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/board-of-peace-warns-of-humanitarian-emergency-in-gaza-after-severe-flooding/4117930). It said flooding over the past two days had \"swamped tens of thousands of tents and makeshift shelters\" and left displaced families exposed to the cold.\n\nThe Board said it had repeatedly urged the Israeli government to let in materials for shelter, water, sanitation, drainage and sewage removal. It said it had asked Israel to keep its commitments under the Sharm El-Sheikh Humanitarian Protocol. It acknowledged \"steps being considered\" by the Israeli government, including through COGAT, the Israeli military body that handles civilian matters in the Palestinian territories. \"The response remains insufficient,\" it said.\n\n\"We call on the leadership of the current Government of Israel to act immediately to authorize and facilitate the entry of all necessary winterization and humanitarian supplies, and to fully implement its commitments under the President's Comprehensive Peace Plan,\" the statement read.\n\nThe Board linked the aid delays to the wider plan. It said the delays \"have exacerbated the consequences of a foreseeable humanitarian challenge.\" It said they had also \"significantly delayed\" two key steps. One is the start of weapons decommissioning. The other is the transfer of authority from Hamas to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG). The NCAG is the technocratic body meant to take over civilian government in Gaza under the plan.\n\nThe Board also acknowledged improvements over the past year, especially in food supply and nutrition. It warned that the flooding threatened to reverse those gains, according to Israel National News.\n\n## The Board's message to Hamas\n\nThe statement was also sharp toward Hamas. \"We likewise call on Hamas's leadership to abide by its commitments without further delay,\" it said, [The Jerusalem Post reported](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-914378). \"Recent military activity in civilian areas and near Israeli positions endangers civilians and undermines the humanitarian progress of the last year.\" It called on Hamas to lay down its weapons and transfer governing authority to the NCAG.\n\n\"Nothing absolves Hamas from its responsibility for launching the attacks of October 7th, 2023, with no consideration for the consequences for the population,\" the Board said, according to Israel National News.\n\nThe Board urged the UN, its agencies and donors to coordinate with it to raise money and supplies for Gaza's winter needs. \"The time for assurances without implementation has passed,\" it said. It warned that parties that fail to meet their obligations would \"bear direct responsibility for the consequences.\"\n\n## Israel: 91,000 tents and requests left unfilled\n\nThe statement came as the Israel Defense Forces and COGAT released new details of what they said Israel has done to prepare Gaza for winter. According to the military, as reported by Israel National News, more than 91,000 tents and over 8,200 trucks carrying winter supplies, including blankets, tarpaulins and clothing, have entered Gaza in recent months.\n\nThe IDF said the winter program was developed with the Board of Peace and carried out with the UN, aid groups and donor countries. It said it had let in 12 sewage vacuum trucks for the International Committee of the Red Cross and 7,500 vaccine doses for UNICEF. It also listed three mobile clinics for International Medical Corps, plus medical supplies and fuel for hospitals.\n\nThe military said more than 850 requests covering tens of thousands of trucks of winter supplies have been approved. It said about half of those have not yet been carried out by the UN and international organizations, partly because of logistical and financial problems. It also said it is still reviewing requests for equipment that it says could be diverted to Hamas to rebuild military infrastructure, while looking at alternatives.\n\n\"The IDF and COGAT will continue working to improve the humanitarian response and prepare the population for winter, while preventing these efforts from being exploited to rebuild the capabilities of terrorist organizations,\" the military said. 567politics did not find a direct response from Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu's](https://567politics.com/politicians/benjamin-netanyahu) office to the Board's criticism by publication time.\n\nTrump spoke with Netanyahu several days ago and told him he wanted Israel to advance the 20-point plan, The Jerusalem Post reported. It cited two sources familiar with the details.\n\n## Hamas rejects the statement\n\nHamas rejected the Board's statement on Monday evening. Its statement was carried by the [Palestinian Information Center](https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/11/09/373446/). Hamas said the Board had acknowledged the crisis and Israel's delays. But it said the Board misrepresented the causes and ignored Israel's role in obstructing the plan. Hamas said blaming it for delays contradicts the positions of the mediators, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. It cited a joint mediators' statement of August 3, 2026, that said continued Israeli violations were undermining the plan's second phase.\n\nThe Palestinian news agency [Sawa](https://palsawa.com/en/palestinian-news/2026/11/09/hamas-slams-peace-council-for-absolving-israel-and-distorting-gaza-crisis) said Hamas accused the Board of giving a distorted account of what caused the disaster. Hamas warned against using relief and shelter supplies as leverage for political blackmail, Sawa said. According to the Palestinian Information Center, Hamas said children dying under collapsed sand embankments or in floodwaters are not parties to political talks. Both outlets published English versions of the statement; the wording above follows their translations.\n\nHamas said it was ready to carry out the agreed arrangements. It rejected attempts to reinterpret them or add new conditions, which it said would change the order of commitments or hold up an Israeli withdrawal. It asked the Board to compel Israel to fulfill its first-phase commitments and open the crossings without political or security conditions. It also asked for a clear timetable and a way to verify progress. It wants the NCAG allowed to start work and a public report on which side has met which commitments.\n\nHamas did not address the Board's call for it to disarm directly in the excerpts published by these outlets.\n\n## The NCAG and the Palestinian Authority\n\nThe NCAG issued its own statement offering condolences to families whose relatives were killed when embankments and rubble collapsed onto tents. \"We call upon regional and international partners, mediators, and all relevant parties to facilitate the immediate entry of shelter and emergency relief supplies, including drainage equipment,\" its chief commissioner said, according to Israel National News. Last week 567politics reported on [the NCAG's stalled handover and the police strike in Gaza](https://567politics.com/news/palestine-gaza-police-strike-hamas-governance-ncag-stalled-november-2026).\n\nIn Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority cabinet opened its weekly meeting with the situation in Gaza. The cabinet said Gazans were entering \"their fourth winter in dilapidated tents,\" the official [WAFA news agency reported](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/176789). It said \"the Israeli occupation continues to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid and essential materials and supplies for shelter and reconstruction.\" It asked all parties to let PA government teams work in Gaza, where it said they are setting up shelters and repairing water networks.\n\nBishara Bahbah is a Palestinian-American businessman who has carried messages between Hamas and the United States. He told the Post that \"there is aid waiting at the border with Egypt, including tents, caravans, and food.\" He said the Trump administration now appears to be working with Israel to improve the situation.\n\n## Germany adds its voice\n\nGermany's Foreign Office also spoke on Monday. At the government press conference in Berlin, spokesman Hinterseher said reports of 70,000 flooded tents showed the need for action, according to the [FragDenStaat transcript](https://fragdenstaat.de/pressekonferenzen/regierungspressekonferenz-vom-09-11-2026/). He said Germany wants scanners for \"dual-use\" goods brought into operation as soon as possible. He also said disarming Hamas is \"an elementary point\" of the plan, that there has been no progress on it, and that progress on aid is needed regardless.\n\n## What remains disputed\n\nThe two sides' figures describe different things. Israel counts tents and trucks that have entered and requests it has approved. The Board, Hamas and the PA say the supplies most needed, such as shelter and drainage materials, are still being held up. Hamas cited UN reports that large amounts of shelter material are waiting outside Gaza for entry permits. The IDF says half of approved requests are waiting on the UN and aid groups, not on Israel. 567politics could not independently check either claim.\n\nBackground on the plan's stalled timetable is in our coverage of [Gaza diplomacy and the yellow line](https://567politics.com/news/gaza-diplomacy-stalls-un-yellow-line-advances-aid-trucks-ceasefire-november-2026) and Board of Peace envoy [Nickolay Mladenov's push for winter shelter](https://567politics.com/news/palestine-gaza-fourth-winter-tents-mladenov-israel-shelter-restrictions-november-2026). Palestinian factions are mapped on our [Palestine political spectrum](https://567politics.com/political-spectrum?country=palestine).","textStyle":"body","layout":"text"}]}