Image above: The ruins of the Palestinian village of Najed in the western Negev of Israel. The Palestinian villagers of Najd were expelled and herded to the Gaza Strip by soldiers from the Jewish Negev Brigade on 12–13 May, 1948 . The Israeli city of Sderot was founded in 1951 on village land, a few miles to the south of the village site, while Or HaNer was founded in 1957 also on village land, to the northeast.
For 66 years Gaza Strip (the present day Auschwitz) was subject to incremental Genocide by Israel. Gaza Strip itself was created by Israel in its earliest war crimes
by Salman Abu Sitta
For 66 years Gaza Strip (the present day Auschwitz) was subject to incremental Genocide by Israel. Gaza Strip itself was created by Israel in its earliest war crimes.
In the spring and summer of 1948 Israel uprooted all the population of 247 Palestinian villages in southern Palestine and herded them in a tiny strip, hence named Gaza Strip. Thus the largest and longest-duration concentration camp in the world was created by Israel. Since then Israel continued to exterminate as many refugees as possible.
On 25 December 1948 Israel tried to decimate the crowded strip by full frontal land attack but was soundly defeated. In January 1949 Israel bombed the refugees food distribution centers in Khan Younis and Deir el Balah, killing hundreds of refugees.
On 28 August 1953 the war criminal Ariel Sharon attacked Bureij camp and killed 43 men, women and children in their beds
On 2 November 1956 Israel mowed down over 500 civilians in Khan Younis, their bodies lay strewn in the streets ( like Shujaiya today). In 1967 the same was repeated. In 1971 Sharon bulldozed whole streets of refugee camps and reduced them to rubble. And so on.
The doctrine of killing and spilling Palestinian blood was established quite early, first by Jabotinsky in 1923 and confirmed by Dayan in 1956. Moshe Dayan preached that Israel lives only by killing Palestinians whom they dispossessed of their homes and lands. He said so on 19 April 1956, mourning a settler who was killed while squatting on Palestinian land near Gaza,
“ For eight years now, they [Palestinians] have sat in the refugee camps of Gaza and have watched how, before their very eyes, we have turned their land and villages, where they and their forefathers previously dwelled, into our home…
“Let us take stock with ourselves. We are a generation of settlement and without the steel helmet and the gun’s muzzle we will not be able to plant a tree and build a house. Let us not fear to look squarely at the hatred that consumes and fills the lives of hundreds of Arabs who live around us. Let us not drop our gaze, lest our arms weaken. That is the fate of our generation. That is our choice – ready and armed, tough and hard – or else the sword shall fall from our hands and our lives will be cut short.”
His speech became the guiding principle for killing Palestinians. Netanyahu is applying it with zeal.
During the Nazi occupation of France, the Nazi forces took revenge against French resistance by killing 100 Frenchmen for each German soldier killed. This is what Israelis are doing today. The Zionists in the end will have the same fate as Nazis and for more compelling reasons.
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Salman H. Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher who writes about Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian Right of Return. Abu Sitta is a former member of the Palestinian National Council, the founder and President of the Palestine Land Society and is the general coordinator of the Right of Return Congress. He has written over 300 articles and papers on Palestinian refugees and the Right of Return.
Among his published works are:
The Return Journey (2007) in Arabic, English and Hebrew, Atlas of Palestine, 1948 (January 2004), Atlas of Palestine 1917-1966, two editions, Arabic and English, and Nakba 1948: The register of depopulated localities in Palestine (Occasional Return Centre studies) (1998 reprinted 2000)
