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Over 8,000 Jewish settlers from the 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip were relocated. Palestinians celebrated amid skepticism that the withdrawal would take place. [ 7 ] Israeli polls on support for the plan during the time showed support for the plan in the 50–60% range and opposition in the 30–40% range. [ 8 ]
British-Israeli historian Ilan Pappé said, "What we see now are massacres which are part of the genocidal impulse, namely to kill people in order to downsize the number of people living in Gaza." [325] Jewish Holocaust historian Amos Goldberg said that Israel's actions in Gaza exhibit all the elements of genocide, citing explicit intent from ...
The Old Town of Gaza (1862–1863). Picture by Francis Frith The known history of Gaza spans 4,000 years. Gaza was ruled, destroyed and repopulated by various dynasties, empires, and peoples. Originally a Canaanite settlement, it came under the control of the ancient Egyptians for roughly 350 years before being conquered and becoming one of the Philistines' principal cities. Gaza became part ...
Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them.
The Gaza infrastructure decimated by the Israel military operation against Hamas has set back human development in the area by almost 70 years, according to a new UN report. After Hamas launched ...
A group of Palestinians living in Gaza and the U.S. as well as human rights organizations, are suing President Joe Biden and other state officials because they allege the U.S. is not taking “all ...
Residents protest against the evacuation of the Israeli community Kfar Darom. Sign translation: "Kfar Darom will not fall twice!".August 2005. Israeli settlements are civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories, populated almost exclusively by Jewish identity or ethnicity on lands that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967.
Destroyed buildings in Gaza City, January 2009. The Gaza War [115] started when Israel launched a large military campaign in the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008, codenamed Operation "Cast Lead" (Hebrew: מבצע עופרת יצוקה), [116] with the stated aim of stopping Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.