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  • We are putting a complete siege on Gaza.

  • No electricity...

  • no food, no water, no gas.

  • It's all closed.

  • We're fighting animals and are acting accordingly.

  • That was the defense minister of Israel...

  • responding to the deadly attack on October 7th by Hamas...

  • a militant group based in Gaza.

  • Hamas launched rockets, killed over 1,400 civilians...

  • and kidnapped close to 200 people.

  • Within days, Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip...

  • killing several thousand, wiping out entire families...

  • and striking ambulances, border crossings...

  • and residential buildings.

  • At the same time, Israel told over 1 million civilians...

  • to leave their homes and move south.

  • Warning them of an escalation of violence in the north.

  • But Israel is bombarding the south, too.

  • Leaving Palestinians trapped.

  • For as long as this conflict has existed...

  • movement in and out of the Gaza Strip...

  • has been, to one degree or another, restricted.

  • The prime minister of the Israeli occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu...

  • he knows very well

  • that people are not able to leave.

  • The Gaza Strip is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories

  • occupied by Israel since 1967.

  • This sliver of land only 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide...

  • is home to over 2 million Palestinians.

  • Making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

  • For the last 16 years

  • residents here have been living under a harsh blockade...

  • that allows Israel to control the flow of electricity, fuel

  • food, water, and medical supplies.

  • So they can dictate when Palestinians receive essentials...

  • and when they're denied.

  • That control is rooted in violence and destruction...

  • that goes back decades.

  • Before the establishment of Israel...

  • Gaza was part of what became known as historic Palestine...

  • under Ottoman rule and later under British occupation.

  • In 1947, as the British prepared to leave...

  • they left the fate of Palestine...

  • up to a newly formed United Nations...

  • who voted to divide Palestine into a Jewish state...

  • and an Arab state.

  • Soon, Zionist forces and militias began to forcibly expel

  • hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land...

  • to establish the state of Israel.

  • Many internally displaced Palestinians

  • fled to this narrow stretch of land...

  • that would later become known as the Gaza Strip.

  • So these refugees became refugees because...

  • they were pushed out of their towns and villages.

  • Some of them literally live a mile away from

  • what used to be their towns and villages.

  • Many others were forced to flee to neighboring Arab countries.

  • Overwhelmed by refugees...

  • these countries immediately declared a war

  • against the new state of Israel to support Palestinian Arabs.

  • They eventually lost to Israel...

  • but Jordan ended up occupying the West Bank

  • and Egypt occupied Gaza City and nearby towns

  • along these ceasefire lines.

  • Then in 1967...

  • another war broke out.

  • Amid Palestinian resistance

  • and fearing threats from neighboring Arab countries...

  • Israel launched a full scale attack on Jordan, Syria, and Egypt.

  • In just six days...

  • Israel captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai from Egypt...

  • the West Bank from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria.

  • This was the beginning of the Israeli occupation in Gaza...

  • that continues today.

  • Israel took control of all movement from and to the Gaza Strip...

  • by land, air, and sea.

  • It placed troops along this line and inside the Gaza Strip...

  • and allowed Palestinians to travel between the Gaza Strip...

  • Israel, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

  • But just a few months after the war

  • even though Palestinians now lived under Israeli control...

  • they began to be referred to asnon-citizensorforeign residents

  • in official Israeli documents.

  • You inherit the status from your parents and grandparents.

  • Being a stateless, unrecognized, with no rights...

  • and you know this impacts your life.

  • This was also when Israel started to build settlements

  • for Jewish Israelis inside of Gaza.

  • To Palestinians...

  • this meant even more land being taken away from them.

  • And they were being closed in.

  • Israel did not allow Palestinians here

  • to operate their own seaport or airport.

  • Within the Gaza Strip...

  • Israel developed key industries like agriculture...

  • to cater to Israeli and West Bank markets...

  • taking advantage of Gaza's cheap labor market

  • and paying Palestinians very little.

  • These economic challenges led to the rise

  • of a prominent Islamic social charity:

  • Mujama al-Islamiya.

  • At the time, this charity, partially funded by Israel...

  • built schools, mosques, clinics

  • and provided more food for Palestinians in Gaza.

  • But tensions simmered.

  • Israel feared a growing resistance movement.

  • And in response, soldiers often frisked...

  • arrested and detained residents.

  • In 1987, that tension reached a breaking point

  • after an Israeli truck crashed into a civilian car...

  • killing four Palestinians.

  • Palestinians immediately responded

  • with protests, strikes, and boycotts against occupation.

  • It would become known as the first uprising...

  • or intifada.

  • And that same year

  • Mujama al-Islamiya transformed into a militant group: Hamas.

  • Hamas was a group that came about

  • during the first Palestinian uprising.

  • And was not really a part

  • of institutional politics for some time.

  • They weren't in charge of Gaza yet, but they wanted to liberate

  • Palestinian territories from Israel's control...

  • and considered Israel an illegitimate state.

  • After the first year of the intifada...

  • during which over 140 Palestinians in Gaza were killed...

  • Hamas and other militant groups began to attack Israelis more directly.

  • Then the intifada grew more violent in 1991...

  • which is also when Israel introduced a permit system

  • that greatly restricted Gaza residents' ability to work...

  • travel through Israel...

  • or access the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

  • By the end of the First Intifada...

  • Israeli forces had killed over 1,000 Palestinians...

  • and Palestinian militants had killed over 100 Israelis...

  • throughout Israel and the occupied territories.

  • The uprising ended after the internationally brokered

  • Oslo Peace Accords...

  • between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization...

  • or the PLO.

  • This was a liberation movement with an armed wing...

  • that fought for Palestinian rights for decades.

  • The PLO agreed to disarm and recognize Israel's right to exist.

  • But Hamas, which had very little political support at the time

  • strongly opposed it.

  • The deal also created a new governing body:

  • The Palestinian Authority, or PA...

  • which allowed political parties and elections in the Gaza Strip.

  • The PA was granted some autonomy within small areas...

  • but Israel still controlled the territories

  • and the flow through these crossings.

  • The Oslo agreement

  • also promised Palestinians some level of autonomy...

  • and a path to statehood in five years.

  • But that never happened.

  • Instead, what followed was more Israeli settlements

  • on Palestinian land.

  • And a year later, following an attack by an Israeli settler in the West Bank

  • and a series of bombings by Palestinian militants

  • including Hamas...

  • Israel's prime minister called for the construction of a fence

  • around the Gaza Strip.

  • Gaza now had a physical barrier between it

  • and the outside world.

  • These moves made Palestinians

  • trust the Israeli government and peace negotiations even less...

  • and it would lead to a second uprising.

  • On September 28th, 2000

  • Israeli politician Ariel Sharon visited Al-Aqsa mosque...

  • a muslim holy site in Jerusalem

  • that's largely inaccessible to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

  • This visit sparked widespread protests and violent clashes...

  • resulting in Israeli forces killing four Palestinian children the next day.

  • And Palestinian militants carried out suicide bombings.

  • Back in the Gaza Strip...

  • Palestinians broke down much of this barrier.

  • The Israeli government soon built it back up

  • and heavily militarized it with more troops and observation posts.

  • They further canceled travel and work permits...

  • restricting movement through this crossing even more....

  • and eventually destroyed Gaza's only major airport...

  • and its under-construction seaport.

  • By the end of the Second Intifada in 2005...

  • Palestinian militants had killed over 900 Israelis...

  • and Israeli forces killed over 3000 Palestinians.

  • The Second Intifada gradually came to an end...

  • as Israel dismantled all Jewish Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip...

  • and withdrew the ground troops.

  • Then another internationally brokered agreement gave the PA

  • control of this crossing with Egypt on the Gaza side...

  • and allowed trucks and convoys to flow between

  • the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

  • But Israel didn't let that happen.

  • At the time of the first legislative election after the Second Intifada...

  • Fatah, a party backed by the PA and PLO...

  • that had negotiated with Israel, was in power.

  • But many Palestinians saw Fatah and its approach as ineffective.

  • Hamas, which was now a political party

  • in addition to being a militant group...

  • won most of the seats in 2006.

  • People voted for Hamas as a way to...

  • to express their disapproval

  • of the ongoing status quo

  • which was that the peace process had failed

  • and they had had two uprisings and no state was in sight.

  • In response to an armed militant party winning...

  • Israel banned laborers from leaving Gaza for work.

  • Then, when militants captured an Israeli soldier...

  • Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza...

  • and tightened its control on the sea

  • limiting fishing capabilities to only six miles.

  • Politically, within Gaza, Hamas had won the election...

  • but the PA was still the governing body...

  • with Fatah under its wing.

  • A conflict broke out between Hamas and Fatah...

  • and Hamas seized power of the entire strip in 2007.

  • This is when Israel put Gaza

  • under the official blockade that continues today...

  • tightening Israel's grip over Gaza even more...

  • trapping over 2 million Palestinians inside.

  • This time, Israel closed the main crossing for commercial goods...

  • made travel even more restrictive...

  • banned exports from Gaza...

  • and imposed restrictions on the import of essential items...

  • such as fuel, medicine, and food.

  • They even used mathematical formulas...

  • to determine the necessary caloric intake...

  • for people in Gaza to control how much food they would allow in.

  • Basically, we live a slow death in Gaza.

  • Even before major escalations.

  • People cannot travel freely.

  • We have Israeli drones...

  • hovering around 24/7.

  • There's always stress.

  • Over the next several years

  • reoccurring conflicts and airstrikes

  • made the already devastanting impacts of this blockade worse.

  • Israeli airstrikes destroyed vital infrastructure...

  • such as water and power plants.

  • Repairs were delayed by the blockade...

  • which impacted the delivery of construction materials.

  • And for each militant attack on Israelis...

  • Israel killed far more Palestinians in retaliation.

  • At times, Israel would slightly lift restrictions...

  • but it was never close to matching the humanitarian needs

  • of Palestinians in Gaza.

  • According to a UN report from 2022...

  • The 16 year blockade had made

  • 78% of the water in Gaza undrinkable...

  • left 62% of Palestinians inside of Gaza in need of food assistance...

  • living with rolling power cuts

  • that last on average 11 hours per day.

  • That is our normal life.

  • We would have 8 hours of electricity, 12 hours of electricity...

  • It changes depending on the situation

  • and the availability of fuel.

  • We are completely dependent on Israel.

  • This is what many Palestinians

  • and international law calls collective punishment.

  • Collective punishment is when cancer patients cannot travel...

  • because they get denied.

  • And collective punishment...

  • It means also that Palestinians cannot have their own hospitals...

  • and they cannot treat...

  • their patients.

  • Collective punishment means

  • the people of Gaza now are punished...

  • for the most recent escalation.

  • When you look at the crime of genocide...

  • which is, you know, the intentional destruction...

  • of a whole people in part or in whole.

  • We are seeing elements of that crime

  • being committed and carried out in the Gaza Strip...

  • right now.

  • There's equating...

  • between Hamas and all Palestinians.

  • And this is not the first time

  • that we're going to see people in Gaza

  • and civilians in Gaza, half of whom are children...

  • pay the price for Hamas or anything else.

  • Israeli and US leaders have emphasized

  • that Israel has a right to defend itself...

  • by wiping out Hamas completely.

  • But the majority of casualties in the Gaza Strip...

  • aren't Hamas fighters.

  • They're civilians.

  • It's an interesting question

  • to consider whether or not...

  • things would have been different if Hamas didn't exist.

  • But the thing is, Hamas didn't exist until the late 80s.

  • But the occupation of the Palestinian territories

  • has been since 1967.

  • And the original Palestinian displacement was 1948.

  • And Hamas didn't really emerge until much later than that.

  • I think that anybody who follows

  • Israeli and Palestinian politics with some level of honesty...

  • knew that if...

  • what happened hadn't happened

  • something else was going to happen...

  • because the status quo was unsustainable.

  • The world has to recognize this suffering.

  • Even before we have escalations.

  • The reason we have escalations is because...

  • people cannot find any hope.

  • No one wanted to get to this point.

  • The tragedy of it all in my mind...

  • I think, besides the loss of human life...

  • is that it was preventable, easily preventable.

We are putting a complete siege on Gaza.

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Gaza, explained

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2023 年 10 月 28 日
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