The Gaza- The War.........???
Israel is the world’s only Jewish state, located just east to Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians, the Arab population that hails from the land Israel now controls, refer to the territory as Palestine, and want to establish a state by that name on all or part of the same land. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who land and how it’s controlled.They were given a large part of Palestine, which they considered their traditional home but the Arabs who lived there and in neighboring countries felt that was unfair and didn’t accept the new country.
Israelis and Arabs have been fighting over Gaza on and off, for decades. It’s part of the wider Arab Israeli conflict. Though both Jews and Arab Muslims date their claims to the land back a couple thousand years, the current political conflict began in the early 20th century. Jews fleeing persecution in Europe wanted to establish homeland in what was then an Arab-and Muslim-majority territory in the British Empire. The Arabs resisted, seeing the land as rightfully theirs. An early United Nations plan to give each group part of the land failed, and Israel and surrounding Arab nations fought several wars over the territory. Today’s lines largely reflect the outcomes of two of these wars, one waged in1948 and another in 1967.
After some Israeli extremists murdered a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem and Israeli security forces cracked down on protests, compounding Palestinian outrage, Hamas and other Gaza groups launched dozens of rockets into Israel, which responded with many more air strikes. So far the fighting has killed one Israeli and 230 Palestinians; two UN agencies have separately estimated that 70-plus percent of the fatalities are civilians. On Thursday, July 17, Israeli ground forces invaded Gaza, which Israel says is to shut down tunnels that Hamas could use to cross into Israel. That gets backs to that essential truth about the conflict today: Palestinian civilians endure the brunt of it. While Israel targets militants and Hamas targets civilians, Israel’s disproportionate military strength and its willingness to target militants based in dense urban communities means that Palestinians civilians are far more likely to be killed than any other group. Everyone has heard of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Everyone knows it’s bad, that it’s been going on for a long time, and that there is a lot of hatred on both sides. The decades-long process of resolving that conflict another, overlapping conflict: managing the very unpleasant Israeli-Palestinian coexistence, in which Israel has put the Palestinians under suffocating military occupation and Palestinian militant groups terrorize Israelis. Both sides have squandered peace and perpetuated conflict, but Palestinians today bear most of the suffering. Those two dimensions of the conflict are made even worse by the long, bitter, violent history between these two peoples. It’s not just that there is lots of resentment and distrust; Israelis and Palestinians have such widely divergent narratives of the last 70-plus years, of what has happened and why, that even reconciling their two realities is extremely difficult. All of this makes it easier for extremists, who oppose any compromise and want to destroy or subjugate the other site entirely, to control the conversation and derail the peace process.
The last round of fighting was sparked when members of Hamas in the West Bank murdered three Israeli youths who were studying there on June 10. Though the Hamas members appear to have acted without approval from their leadership, which nonetheless praised the attack, Israel responded by arresting large numbers of Hamas personnel in the West Bank and with air strikes against the group in Gaza. Today, the West Bank is nominally controlled by the Palestinian Authority and is under Israeli occupation. This comes in the form of “settlers”, Jews who build ever-expanding communities in the West Bank that effectively deny the land to Palestinians, and Israeli troops, who protect the settlers and enforce Israeli security restrictions on Palestinian movement. Gaza is controlled by Hamas, an Islamist fundamentalist party, and is under Israeli blockade but not ground troop occupation. The two Palestinian groups may have reconciled on April 23rd, creating one shared Palestinian government for the first time since 2007
Facts about the Israel-Palestine conflict on which we can all agree:-
The conflict is older than Hamas –a lot older
If Muslims want peace in Palestine ,then they must unite in peace worldwide
Peace cannot exist without justice
Palestine was a haven for Jewish refuses before the creation of Israel
Since Israel was created by the united nation ,it must live by the united nations
Arab blood and Jewish blood are human blood –and all blood is equal
Both sides have committed potential war crimes and must be held accountable accordingly
America must play fair, and so must worldwide Muslim leadership
What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting?
Facts about the Israel-Palestine conflict on which we can all agree
Question about the Israel – Palestine conflict you were too embarrassed to ask
Guide: why are Israel and Palestinians fighting over Gaza?