THE PALESTINE GENOCIDE
Palestine is regarded as an important and sacred land for all three major religious in the world; Islam, Christianity, and Judiasm with respect to the Holy places like the Dome of Rock and Masjide Aqsa located in Jerusalem. Given its importance from religious point of view, all three religions have tried to take control of the land for centuries. Currently under the Muslim control, Palestine has been the target of Zionist attacks and airstrikes so that it can be brought under the control of Jews in order to form a Greater Israel. The killings started way back and now it all has developed into an on-going genocide involving massacres, ridding the palestenian from basic needs of food, water and shelter, to their mass displacements to other parts of the remaining Palestine etc. The Palestinian genocide has given rise to mass protests around the world asking for ceasefire.
In Berlin, activists set up a camp in front of parliament to demand the German government stop exporting arms to Israel. At Columbia University, more than 100 pro-Palestinian activists were arrested about a week ago, university leaders and state officials have strongly condemned the protests, calling them “anti-Semitic”.
“People are gathering here on Parliament Square for a series of very major protests in the heart of London,” said Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from London.
Jewish antiwar protester Sam Koprak told during the protest:
“As a child of Holocaust survivors, it disturbs me to my core to see my own people perpetrating something that we’ve been through,”
Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 38,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people from their homes. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its military offensive on October 7. In recent conflicts, indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. It is estimated that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be accountable.
Such a number would represent almost 8 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population of 2.3 million.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says more than 70% of the dead are women and children. For most of the conflict its figures showed children as representing slightly over 40% of all those killed.
The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.
There are 1.5 million Palestinian refugees living in 58 official UN camps located throughout Palestine and neighbouring countries. In total, there are more than five million registered Palestinian refugees mostly living outside of these camps. The difficulty of Palestinian refugees is one of the huge unresolved refugee problem in the world.
Nearly 70 percent of Gaza’s residents are refugees. About 1.4 million refugees live in eight refugee camps around the Gaza Strip.
-by Muaz Ullah
