"Israel should continue being tough against Hamas and to a certain extent towards the Gaza population, so they pressure Hamas to stop any kind of campaign including the march and such quasi-violence," said Professor Hillel Frisch of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. Frisch believed I...
Gaza (/ˈɡɑːzə/ ⓘ;[4] Arabic: Ġazzah, IPA: [ɣaz.zah]), also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of 590,481 (in 2017), making it the largest city in the State of Palestine. Inhabited since at least the 15th ...
Civilians must abstain from fighting; The party in control of the civilian population must not place them at heightened risk of harm by using them as human shields; and The attacking force must take precautions to avoid or minimize excessive civilian casualties when attacking lawful targets. Not o...
Nearly half Gaza’s population — the vast majority of whom are already refugees — have been displaced. Israel has imposed a complete siege on Gaza, preventing the entrance of food, water and fuel — a move that has created a catastrophic humanitarian situation. As the Israeli m...
population. Israel did not allow them to return to their former homes or to receive compensation for their loss of property. The refugees were maintained largely through the aid of theUNRWA. Many of the younger refugees became fedayeen (Arab guerrillas operating against Israel); their attacks on...
(or at least a part of it) is also known as the Holy Land and is held sacred amongJews,Christians, andMuslims. Since the 20th century it has been the object of conflicting claims of Jewish and Arab national movements, and the conflict has led to prolonged violence and, in several ...
Though Ben-Gvir is insisting that the war on Gaza must continue, his actual aim out of its continuation – aside from the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza population – is to use this rare opportunity to fulfill all the wishes of Israel’s political extremists, all at once. ...
Half of Gaza's population is under the age of 19 but faces grim economic prospects, as 16 years of Israel's blockade and ban on imports and exports has crippled the economy. The unemployment rate in Gaza is above 40%, more than 65% of the population is under the poverty line, and wi...
Over 61 percent of homes in the enclave have been damaged, and 1.9 million Palestinian residents, or nearly 85 percent of the Gaza population, have been forcibly displaced, according to UN estimates. Local residents are suffering from severe shortages of electricity, food, and shelters due to th...
Since October 7, about 85% of Gaza’s population, or some 1.9 million people, have been displaced from their homes, according to the United Nations – many of them moved multiple times, fleeing airstrikes and heeding Israeli warnings of military attacks, and largely squeezed into a small,...