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Palestinians. (For information on expenditures on behalf of both populations, go
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Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since September 29, 2000.

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Interview with Alison Weir

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Starvation, destruction in northern Gaza; UNRWA officially fired with no
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12 ESSENTIAL FACTS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT ISRAEL-GAZA VIOLENCE

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 * ‣Israel and Gaza are not separate countries. Gaza is a small territory mostly
   surrounded by Israel and whose borders Israel controls (directly or in the
   case of one crossing, indirectly).
   * Gaza is a small territory mostly surrounded by Israel and whose borders
     Israel controls (directly or in the case of one crossing, indirectly).
   * Gaza is part of the shrinking Palestinian lands, along with the West Bank
     and East Jerusalem, which are under Israeli military occupation. Together,
     these areas are often referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territories
     (OPT).
   * Human Rights Watch explains: “While Palestinians have a limited degree of
     self-rule in parts of the OPT, Israel retains primary control over borders,
     airspace, the movement of people and goods, security, and the registry of
     the entire population, which in turn dictates such matters as legal status
     and eligibility to receive identity cards. A number of Israeli officials
     have stated clearly their intent to maintain this control in perpetuity and
     backed it up through their actions.”
     
   
     Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory, made up of the West
     Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, as well as the
     Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ©2021 Human Rights Watch
   
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 * ‣Gaza is often called an “open-air prison” -- for good reason.
   * Israel built a militarized wall around Gaza, essentially imprisoning its
     2.3 million men, women, and children. It’s extremely difficult to get in
     and out of Gaza; Israel has even prevented children with life-threatening
     illnesses from leaving for care.
   * Israel has blockaded Gaza for over 16 years, often preventing essential
     items from getting into the area, including food and medications, causing
     growth stunting in children and escalating poverty.
     
     
   
     Israeli soldiers stand on guard by the fence along the Gaza Strip near
     Moshav Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel [Menahem Kahana/AFP]
   
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 * ‣Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinian Arabs peacefully shared the land
   for centuries before Israel was created.
   * Before the movement to create Israel, the inhabitants of the area were
     approximately 80% Muslim, 15% Christian and 5% Jewish.
   * These Palestinians of different faiths lived together without violence.
   * The land was known as Palestine, though it was not a modern state, and was
     first under the Ottoman Empire and then briefly under British colonial
     control.
   * In the late 1800s a secular movement began in Europe to create a Jewish
     state. The movement, called Zionism by its founders, encouraged Jewish
     Europeans and Americans to move to Palestine to start a new country, but
     only a small minority joined this movement. Most Jews in the region opposed
     it, and religious Jews generally considered it heretical.
     
   
     [close section]
 * ‣Israel was founded in 1948 by forcing non-Jewish Palestinians off the land.
   * There are still Palestinians alive today who were forced out of the new
     state.
   * Some 70-80 percent of Gazans are from families violently forced out in the
     founding of Israel.
   * Zionist leaders lobbied Britain, the U.S., and member states of the United
     Nations to support the creation of a new state of Israel (but this was not
     passed by the Security Council and did not create Israel).
   * The new state was set up in 1948, when Zionist/Israeli military groups
     forced ~750,000 non-Jewish Palestinians from their land, confiscating their
     homes.
   * There were atrocities, rapes, 33 documented massacres, and the destruction
     of 400-500 Palestinian villages. Israeli historian Ilan Pappé discusses
     sexual assaults by Israeli soldiers during its 1948 founding war here.
   * An Israeli soldier who participated in the massacre at al Duwayima Village
     on October 29, 1948 stated that they had “killed between 80 to 100 Arabs,
     women and children. To kill the children they fractured their heads with
     sticks. There was not one house without corpses…
   * “One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a house he was
     about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself upon having raped an
     Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman with her
     newborn baby was made to clean the place for a couple of days, and then
     they shot her and the baby…”
   * The Israeli communities surrounding Gaza that were attacked on October 7th
     were built on stolen Palestinian land, the Israeli inhabitants enjoying
     life while the rightful owners were living in desperation and poverty a few
     miles away in the Gaza prison.
     
     
   
     Palestinian refugees leaving a village near Haifa, June 1948.
   
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 * ‣Israel has been taking over more Palestinian land ever since...
   * The refugees from Israel’s founding war retreated to camps in the remaining
     portion of the land, which became the Palestinian territories, or
     neighboring countries. A portion remained within what is now Israel as
     second class citizens.
   * Israel took over more land in 1967 and set up a military occupation in the
     remaining Palestinian territories. (At this time, Israeli forces tried to
     sink a U.S. Navy ship monitoring the violence, killing 34 Americans and
     injuring 174. An independent commission concluded Israel had perpetrated an
     act of war against the U.S..)
   * Israeli settlers have been taking over more land ever since, creating new
     towns and roads in the West Bank that are off-limits to Palestinians.
     
     
   
     USS Liberty crew wounded during Israeli attack that killed 34 and injured
     174.
   
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 * ‣The two “sides” are not evenly matched.
   * Israel exerts control over all Palestinian land -- either directly, through
     its military occupation in the West Bank, or indirectly, through its
     control of Gaza’s borders.
   * Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world, including
     nuclear weapons, supported by massive funding from the U.S. and other
     states.
   * Israel is an affluent, modernized country, while the Palestinian lands,
     which contain many highly educated, technologically advanced individuals,
     suffer under poverty, blockades, and a constant need to rebuild after
     Israeli attacks.
     
   
     Daily Life in Occupied Palestine from If Americans Knew
   
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 * ‣Palestinians are killed at massively higher rates than Israelis, and this
   has always been true.
   * While every death is tragic, Israeli forces have killed vastly more
     Palestinians in every stage of the “conflict” than Palestinians have killed
     Israelis. The majority of the Palestinian victims are civilians, including
     numerous women and children.
   * Western media and politicians tend to present violence between Israeli
     forces and Palestinians as initiated by Palestinian attacks that spark
     Israeli retaliation. Studies of the facts show the opposite.
     
     
   
     Chart showing deaths on both sides as of December 11, 2023 (source:
     IsraelPalestineNews.org)
   
     
     
   
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 * ‣Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have often tried nonviolent
   resistance.
   * The vast majority of Palestinians have no weapons. They continually have
     called out to the international community to uphold universal human rights.
   * In 2018 thousands of families in Gaza gathered every week for over a year
     and a half in unarmed, Gandhian style demonstrations. Israeli snipers shot
     one after another, and the world was silent.
   * This was just the latest of decades of nonviolent Palestinian
     demonstrations against Israeli theft of their property, many of them in
     small villages.
     
     
     
   
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 * ‣Numerous respected organizations have documented Israel’s systemic human
   rights abuses and violations of international law.
   * Israel has a policy going back decades of breaking the arms and legs of
     protestors with rocks.
   * The homes of Palestinians can be taken over at any time by the Israeli
     military. The occupants are locked in one area while their home is used as
     a temporary military base.
   * Israeli soldiers regularly go into Palestinian cities and villages and take
     Palestinian prisoners. Thousands of Palestinians, including children are
     held by Israel at any given time, often without ever being charged with a
     crime.
   * Torture of Palestinian adults and children in Israeli prisons and by
     Israeli forces, including sexual assaults, have been documented for years.
     (For example, see this report on sexual torture of Palestinian men by
     Israeli authorities and this report about an Israeli interrogator sexually
     assaulting a Palestinian child.)
   * Israel regularly demolishes Palestinian homes.
   * NGOs documenting these: Human Rights Watch, Red Cross, Amnesty
     International, Israel’s B’Tselem, Christian Aid, Foreign Service Journal,
     Defense for Children-Palestine, Save the Children, numerous UN agencies, Al
     Haq, Israel’s Breaking the Silence, Israeli Committee Against Home
     Demolitions, and more
     
     
     
   
     During the first 'intifada' (uprising,) Israeli soldiers were instructed to
     break the bones of Palestinian protesters.
   
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 * ‣Israel relies on funding and diplomatic cover from the U.S. Its actions
   often harm the United States
   * The U.S. sends at least $10 million per day to Israel, as well as weapons
     and technology, and expends another $10 million per day on projects that
     benefit Israel, largely due to a multi-billion-dollar special interest
     lobby on behalf of Israel.
   * The U.S. routinely vetoes resolutions in the United Nations that would
     condemn Israeli atrocities, and pressures other states to further Israeli
     state goals and isolate Palestinians.
   * For decades, U.S. experts have said that U.S. support for Israel is
     damaging to the United States. In the 1940s and earlier, experts in the
     Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence agencies recommended against
     supporting the pro-Israel movement.
   * Read: Will the Israel Lobby Cause America’s Downfall?
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   
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 * ‣On Oct. 7, hundreds broke out of Gaza, attacked Israeli soldiers &
   civilians, and some took hostages. Israel disseminated atrocity claims about
   the attack, many of them found to be without evidence and untrue.
   * Using rockets and hang gliders, motorcycles, and pickup trucks to cross
     into Israel, Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli communities near Gaza,
     killing and kidnapping Israeli soldiers and civilians.
   * Israeli sources initially claimed that the fighters had killed 1400 people,
     including 40 babies. Now they report that the death toll was actually 695
     Israeli civilians, including about 13 Israeli children under the age of 10,
     one an infant, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a
     total of 1,139. It has also come to light that some of the Israelis –
     soldiers, civilians and children – were killed by Israeli forces.
     
   * Palestinian fighters are presumed to have killed the majority; Israeli
     eyewitnesses and officials say that some subset of victims were killed by
     Israeli forces responding to the attacks.
   * The fighters took hostage more than 200 soldiers and civilians in Israel,
     including Israelis and non-Israelis, 30 children, and seniors, babies, and
     seniors. Hamas aimed to free some of the 5,200 Palestinian prisoners in
     Israeli custody, which included 170 children and of whom 1,264 had never
     been charged with any crime, even stone-throwing.
   * Israel has disseminated unverified atrocity stories about the attack, many
     of them found to be without evidence, for example, the falsehood that 40
     babies had been beheaded. Many of these claims continue to circulate
     despite being shown to be inaccurate or unsupported by the available
     evidence.
     For detailed information, see this.
   * The Israeli military created a ~43 minute graphic video compilation
     allegedly of Palestinian crimes during the attack. Israel and its partisans
     have been showing this film to invitation-only elite influencers, including
     events in Tel Aviv, Hollywood, Congress, and universities such as Harvard.
     The film Is edited to have a powerful emotional impact on audiences, who
     are sometimes unaware of what exactly they're seeing, and who are
     prohibited from seeing the film more than once and from taking notes about
     it. While there are a multitude of clips on the internet of similar and
     worse Israeli crimes against Palestinians, these are not being shown in
     these venues.
   * Already released Israeli hostages and the families of hostages still being
     held are reported to be angry with the Israeli government for not
     prioritizing negotiations to ensure their return to their families. Some of
     the hostages have reportedly been killed by friendly fire and Israeli
     airstrikes.
   * Afterward, Hamas released a document explaining its rationale and actions
     on October 7 entitled "Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" - read it
     here.
     
   
     International journalists were shown around part of Al-Shifa hospital by
     IDF spokesperson Lt Col Jonathan Conricus. The CBS News correspondent found
     the evidence for a Hamas control center “underwhelming”; the BBC found it
     to be full of fabrications.
   
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 * ‣Israel immediately began indiscriminately shelling Gaza, killing and maiming
   massive numbers of men, women, and children.
   * In the first two months, Israeli forces killed over 17,000 people in Gaza,
     including 7,870 children and infants. (Thousands are reportedly still
     missing, mostly under the rubble.) The New York Times reports that in less
     than two months, twice as many women and children in Gaza had been killed
     than in Ukraine after two years of war.
   * Israel cut off electricity to Gaza and has allowed minimal food and other
     supplies to enter. Periodically it has cut off internet and
     telecommunications access.
   * During the first two weeks, Israel dropped more than 25,000 tons of
     explosives on the Gaza Strip, equivalent to two nuclear bombs.
   * The attacks have destroyed and damaged large parts of Gaza. Homes, schools,
     hospitals, entire universities, churches, and mosques have all sustained
     major damage and been destroyed. The BBC reports that satellite imagery
     shows that more than 98,000 buildings – sometimes entire neighborhoods –
     have been damaged or destroyed.
   * During the first two months, Israel ordered some 1.9 million people to
     evacuate their homes and move to small zones in Gaza designated as safe
     areas with little to no food, water, or even toilets. Israeli forces have
     shot at Palestinians walking along designated evacuation routes, as well as
     shelling designated “safe areas” where civilians had been told to relocate.
   * UNICEF and other agencies have decried the escalating humanitarian
     catastrophe.
   * Israel is using an AI program dubbed “The Gospel” to acquire targets at a
     rate hundreds of times greater than using traditional methods.
     
   
     Under Israel's bombardment, over 43,000 housing units in Gaza have been
     destroyed, according to OCHA
   
     
   
     A Palestinian boy carrying a baby stands at a site of Israeli strikes in
     Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip
   
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