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5 YEARS OF ETHNIC
CLEANSING-PALESTINE
Maryam ZAFAR (7th Monsters)
HOW IT STARTED
Palestine was a part of the Ottoman Empire in the
late 19th and early 20th century. During these
times, due to Zionism, (Zionism, a political
movement for the campaign of A Jewish nation,
established in 1897 under Theodor Herzel in Basel,
Switzerland) Jewish immigration to Palestine highly
increased.
Subsequent to World War I, the British empire had
taken control of Palestine under the command of The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometers long and 6-8
the League of Nations. (A peace organization that kilometers wide with a population of 2,229,000 in
was founded after World War I) 2023 (britannica.com )
In 1947, the United Nations proposed the idea of
dividing Palestine into two separate states, a ETHNIC CLEANSING OF THE PALESTINIANS IN
Jewish state and an Arab state. This proposal was GAZA - SINCE OCTOBER 2023
agreed by Jewish leaders but denied by On the 9th of October, Israel announced their
Palestinians. During this period, the surge of blockade and the ban of food and water and a few
violence coming from the zionists increased days later cut off their electricity and restricted the
significantly, this plays a huge role in the start of the entry of any aid and fuel supplies from entering into
occupation of Palestine and the establishment of Gaza (aljazeera.com). Israel has been violating the
the official state of Israel in the year 1948. Which international law and the UN Human rights
resulted more than 80% of Palestinians being agreement by cutting off humanitarian needs and
expelled from their villages. supplies like electricity, fuel, medicine, food and
During the years of 1947-1949, Zionist military water (un.org).
forces demolished 530 Palestinian villages and This has caused the mass killing of premature
killed an estimated number of 15,000 Palestinians babies in incubators and patients who were
by executing a large number of massacres. connected to electrical life support machines
(TRTworld.com) (news.un.org). Israel has been willingly bombing
hospitals, schools, homes, refugee camps and
protected shelters from help organizations
(news.un.org). The Israeli defence minister stated,
“we are fighting against animals.”
Since October over 15,000 Palestinian civilians
who lived in the Gaza Strip have been killed by
Israeli forces (reliefweb.int). The ministry of health
in Gaza has stated that over 25,900 people have
been wounded in Gaza (aljazeera.com). The
number of deaths and the wounded has been, and
still is increasing every moment.
This devastating Palestinian genocide has been
going on for decades. This is a much larger and
THE GAZA STRIP deeper topic so that it has large numbers of books
The Gaza strip is the largest open-air prison with on the issue. This is just a small amount of
the most densely populated place in the world information compared to how large the problem is.
(CNN.com).
