Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Palestinian Stone Intifada, which erupted from the Gaza Strip after a settler ran over a group of Palestinian workers from Jabalia camp near the Beit Hanoun checkpoint, spreading the flames of the popular uprising in Palestine over its entire historical area.
34 years since the incident that sparked 6 years of Intifada.
It lasted for 6 years and ended with the announcement of the Oslo Accords in 1993
The new Israeli wall around Gaza amounts to collective punishment for the region’s 1.8 million Palestinian residents, whom the Israeli government has held captive, mercilessly bombed, and systematically impoverished through its 14-year-long blockade.
The wall — with its underground, sensor-equipped extensions, its remote-controlled weaponry, and its surveillance cameras (swipe left for diagram) — is cause for alarm, not celebration. The Israeli government/military is the world’s leading developer of technologies of war, occupation, and “demographic engineering” (swipe left), and it is field-testing those technologies on Palestinians living in the world’s largest open-air prison.
The construction of this wall is yet another event on the timeline of the ongoing Nakba, the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes from 1948 to the present. In fact, a majority of the Palestinians in Gaza are refugees from other parts of Palestine who are now confined to the densely-populated, blockaded region. As @ jehadabusalim writes, “for Israel to maintain its majority, Palestinians must remain trapped as refugees beyond walls and fences, even if their lands were in walking distance.”
With smuggled pens and lessons written on cigarette boxes, Palestinian prisoners fought their way to claim their right to education in Israeli prisons, so how does the senior year of high school (Tawjihi) look in confinement?
The first are Palestinian citizens of Israel, who currently have greater freedom of movement (than other groups of Palestinians) and are accorded the right to vote in Israeli Knesset elections, although they experience many inequalities and restrictions in public life.
The second group are those Palestinians who reside in East Jerusalem but are not citizens.
The third are residents of the rest of the occupied West Bank, and the fourth are the residents of the Gaza Strip.
An additional fifth category consists of Palestinian refugees who are simply barred from returning to the country altogether.
Each of these groups experiences apartheid differently, but the overall scheme is governed by the same ideology and policy of privileging Jews over non-Jews.
A Palestinian driver was burnt alive by Israeli occupation forces who opened gunfire at his vehicle's fuel tank during an alleged car-ramming attack at the Israeli military checkpoint of Dothan, southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians in several villages between the cities of Nablus and Jenin have been confronting Israeli settlers, over the past ten days, in an act of resistance against Israeli settlers and settlements.
Settlers led provocative marches, attacked Palestinians and their properties in Burqa, Sebastia, Beita, Silat al-Dhaher, and Bizzariya villages, and vandalized graves in Burqa. All that was committed under the support of the Israeli Occupation Forces who fired live and rubber-coated bullets and tear gas, wounding and suffocating around 300 Palestinians.
Today, there are +500,000 Israeli settlers living in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Since Jan. 2021, settler violence has been escalating, amounting to around 410 attacks against Palestinians and their properties (by the end of Oct. 2021).
Palestinian villagers and Palestinians from nearby cities stand strong defending their lands in the face of settlers’ attacks and the colonial systematic policies supporting them to confiscate Palestinian lands.
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Israeli settlers, for over a week, have been waging a wave of violent attacks against the village of Burqa in the north of the occupied West Bank. Homes were vandalized, defenseless residents were terrified by aggressive settlers, and the Israeli soldiers served protection to the settlers.
Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people on the increase!
Today, Huge Israeli forces and bulldozers stormed the village of Al-Atrash in Al Naqab, southern the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories, and razed large area of land.
The Israeli occupation forces demolish a Palestinian home in Sendas area, southern Hebron.
(Soldiers watching women crying and children looking lost seem inhumane!!)
This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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