Gaza's : Why It's The Main Home Of Refugees, Terrorists and What Jews Had To Do With It

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

Gaza is a 25-mile long stretch of coastal land (141 square miles, 365 square kilometers).  The average width is 8 miles.  The whole of Gaza (aka the Gaza Strip) is about twice the size of Washington, D.C. and three times the population, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt and Israel.  The Gaza Strip is geographically about the size of Philadelphia, Detroit or the country of Grenada.

The Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza were initially established to accommodate Palestinians displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (also known as the Nakba). The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established by the UN General Assembly in December 1949 specifically to provide relief and works programs for these refugees. 

It's important to note that the ongoing conflict in the region has caused significant displacement, with the UN estimating that about 1.9 million people (roughly 90% of the population) have been displaced across the Gaza Strip. This displacement makes it challenging to provide precise, real-time population figures. 

Jews lived here but left in 1917 at the end of WWI.  Those left, really left during the 1929 Arab riots against Jews.  The city of Gaza in 1949 had 30,000, filled with many refugees.  

Egypt had Gaza originally since 1949.  Gaza fell into Israel's hands in November 1956 in the Sinai Operation .  Israel returned the Gaza Strip in March 1957 when Egyptians resumed control with a UN Emergency Force.  In May 1967, the UN secretary-general U Thant obeyed Nasser's demand to withdraw the force allowing the Six Day War to take place.  The 1967 census found 352,260 in the Gaza Strip of whom 172,520 were refugees.  

                                  IDF in Jerusalem 

• Israel had occupied the Gaza Strip since the 1967 Six-Day War.
• Prior to the 2005 disengagement, there were approximately 9,000 Israeli settlers living in 21 settlements within Gaza.  That means that before refugees arrived, there were 179,740 Palestinians 
• living in Gaza.  

Israel completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, as part of its unilateral disengagement plan. Israel had only held it for 38 years.

  

This plan, announced in late 2003 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, aimed to withdraw Israeli soldiers and dismantle settlements in Gaza. Control of the Gaza Strip was then transferred to the Palestinian Authority (PA). 

What Israel left For The Palestinians in Gaza:  

Based on the provided search results, when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the following infrastructure was left behind: 

• Greenhouses: Israeli settlers left behind agricultural greenhouses, which were intended to be used by Palestinians for economic development. Some sources suggest these greenhouses were later looted or destroyed.
• Road networks: A network of roads, including highways and smaller roads, was left behind.
• Other facilities: Educational institutions and healthcare facilities were also left intact.
• Public Buildings: Public buildings, factories, and greenhouses that could not be dismantled were left intact.
• Water Systems: Israel left behind water supply systems that had served the Israeli settlements, including wells, reservoirs, and a transmission system.
• Water and Electricity Networks: Israel continued to provide Gaza with water, communication, electricity, and sewage networks. 

Refugees that entered Gaza:  

• 1948 Arab-Israeli War (Nakba): The initial influx of refugees to Gaza occurred during and after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known to Palestinians as the Nakba ("catastrophe").
• Forced Displacement: Approximately 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their homes as a result of the war.
• Concentration in Gaza: Gaza became a major area for their concentration.
• Descendants Classified as Refugees: UNRWA, the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, classifies those original refugees and their descendants as refugees, regardless of where they were born.

• Many in Refugee Camps: A significant portion of these refugees reside in recognized UNRWA refugee camps within the Gaza Strip.
• Impact of Recent Hamas Terrorist Attack on Israel of October 7, 2023 : Recent War;  particularly the Israeli military campaign starting in October 2023, has resulted in a further wave of internal displacement within Gaza.
• Humanitarian Crisis: The situation has led to a severe humanitarian crisis with significant challenges regarding food security, water, healthcare, and access to essential services.    Hamas has stolen food meant for civilians, sold it at high prices, hidden in their homes, hospitals, mosques, tunnels, 

Islam allows 4 wives per man, so population has grown 4 times faster than the norm. 

Hamas gained control of the Gaza Strip and removed the Palestinian Authority (PA) from power in the following way: 

1. Electoral Victory in 2006:

• In the January 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
• Hamas ran under the banner of "Change and Reform" and secured 74 out of 132 available seats, while the incumbent Fatah party received 45 seats.
• Hamas' victory was seen as a manifestation of public disenchantment with the prevailing Fatah leadership and its perceived corruption. 

2. Formation of a Hamas-led Government and International Backlash:

• Following the election, Hamas formed a government led by Ismail Haniyeh.
  
  
  
• However, due to Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and adhere to previous agreements, Israel, the United States, and the European Union imposed sanctions and cut off direct aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) government, putting immense pressure on the Hamas-led government.  who, by the way, never paid Israel their water
• or electric bills, even with all the money they received from
• their other backers;  Muslim communities.  

                         Russian soldier in 1791

            

Just a quick comparison with Gaza to the Jewish Land of Pale Of Settlement of eastern Europe:  

(Gaza Strip : 365 kilometers) (1.9 million people)   (Pale of Settlement 1,224,008 sq  km) (4 million people) 

On December 23, 1791, Catherine II (“the Great”), the empress of Russia, authorized the creation of the Pale of Settlement, an area in the western part of the empire in which Jewish subjects would be required to reside.  None could live in 

Russia proper.  Catherine the Great did not acquire the Pale of Settlement; it was created by her in 1791 as a way to manage the Jewish population within the Russian Empire after territorial gains from Poland and the Ottoman Empire. The Pale of Settlement was an area within which Jews were permitted to live and work, but it also restricted their movement and commercial activities within the larger Russian Empire.  The first significant decree in this direction was issued on December 23, 1791, which restricted the commercial rights of Jews to certain areas newly annexed from Poland and Turkey, effectively creating the initial boundaries of what would become the Pale of Settlement. 

The Pale of Settlement was a territory within the Russian Empire where Jews were "permitted" to reside permanently, encompassing roughly 472,590 square miles (1,224,008 sq km). This area included parts or the whole of modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Moldova from 1791 to 1917's end of WWI.  That

means that the Jews could only live in the Pale of Settlement and that was it for 126 years.   The borders of the Pale of Settlement were formally abolished by the Russian Provisional Government on March 20th (April 2nd, New Style) 1917, following the February Revolution. This action effectively dismantled the Pale, ending the restrictions on Jewish residency and movement within the Russian Empire.  About 4 million Jews were living in the Pale of Settlement.  

Resource:

https://www.anera.org/how-big-is-gaza/

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/israel-hamas-war-why-gaza-has-so-many-palestinian-refugees

Tulkarm Camp of Jenin: Hamas Refugees

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           
Jenin  is an Arab town in Samaria, situated in the southern corner of the Jezreel Valley, near the junction of roads running to Haifa, Afulah, Nazareth, and Nablus. At the end of the 19^th century, Jenin’s population was below 1,000, but by 1943 had increased to 3,900. In the 1967 census conducted by Israel, the town proper had 8,346 inhabitants; 4,480 more lived in a refugee camp within the

municipal confines. Only 90 were Christians, all the rest Muslims.

Samaria was after Solomon's death, the northern part of the capital of the Kingdom of Israel founded in 880 BCE by the Jewish king Omri.  It's the land's growth of Judea.  

By law-the Oslo Accords, Jews are also allowed land in Judea and Samaria, and so many of the towns are allocated to the Jews who were originally from here in the first place.  Palestinian refugee camps like Jenin are not making life safe for the Jewish population being the hub of terrorism.  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Tulkarm refugee camp, February 21, 2025     (credit: MAAYAN TOAF/GPO)

 Iranian-backed militant groups in the West Bank, have since been extended to other camps, notably the Tulkarm refugee camp and the nearby Nur Shams camp, both of which have also been devastated.

The camps, built for descendants of Palestinian refugees who fled or were driven from their homes in the 1948 war around the creation of the state of Israel, have long been major centres for armed militant groups.  

There is continuous demolition and roads being dug up," said Mohammed al-Sabbagh, head of the Jenin camp services committee.

February 18, 2025 Reuters Headline reads: Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee West Bank Refugee Camps.   A weeks-long Israeli offensive has demolished houses and torn up vital infrastructure in the heavily built up townships, Palestinian authorities said.

Israeli forces began their operation in the refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Jan. 21, deploying hundreds of troops and bulldozers that demolished houses and dug up roads, driving almost all of the camp's residents out. Jenin has been known for a long time to be a hotbed of terrorists.                  

Today is Friday in the US; for Israel it was already on Thursday, when Netanyahu visited Tulkarm.  

"Just before Shabbat begins, I came here to the Tulkarm refugee camp to be with out heroic soldiers," Netanyahu said in a statement. "Over the past year, we have significantly intensified our operations: we are entering terrorist strongholds, leveling entire streets used by terrorists, and eliminating both operatives and commanders. We are carrying out crucial operations to counter Hamas and other terrorist organizations’ attempts to harm us.

This threat has not disappeared. What we saw yesterday—the attempt to carry out a series of mass terror attacks—is extremely serious.

                   Police said it was possible the devices went off prematurely

And what has happened before?  4 buses have been found with bombs placed in them of which 3 blew up before the plan to kill so many Israelis took place. 

"Several buses exploded in various locations across central Israel on Thursday evening in a planned mass terror bombing attempt. At least three bombs exploded buses in the area of Bat Yam, Israel Police said."  

The initial assessment from the security establishment is that the plan for the attack came from Iran, and was carried out by Hamas terrorists from the West Bank. Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) identified Iranian involvement in the West Bank by supplying weapons, training terrorists to carry out attacks, and assembling explosive devices, according to Maariv.

The bombs were set to explode at "around 9 or 10am, but were set incorrectly," according to Maariv, and were composed of non-standard explosive material, including fertilizer and urea. 

                  Tat Aluf or Brig-Gen. Yaki Dolf, former paratrooper.  Yaki was born in Israel in 1976; being only 49.  It evidently is a hard job, as several young men have had this position.  

While in Tulkarm, Netanyahu received a security briefing from Brig.-Gen. Yaki Dolf, Commander of the Judea and Samaria  Division,

            Brig.-Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, Head of the Civil Administration, and the Commander of the Ephraim Brigade.  He's the newly appointed   head of the Defense Ministry body that regulates much of daily life – both Jewish and Arab – in Judea and Samaria. His appointment has shaken up a few politicians in Israel, selected by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi . 

                                   Brig. Gen. Fares Atila
 

Ibrahim will replace Brig. Gen. Fares Atila, who has served in the position since February 2021.  Ibrahim, one of the most senior Druze officers in the Israel Defense Forces, currently serves as commander of the Armored Corps.  Brig. Gen. Fares Atila completes his role as the head of the Civil Administration after 30 years of dedicated service.

Brig. Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, the newly appointed head of the Civil Administration, steps into his role following his tenure as Chief Armor Officer in recent years. Atila will replace Brig. Gen. Ghassan Alian, who currently serves in the position and was recently tapped to serve as the next Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.

Brig. Gen Ghassan Alian, born in 1972,  is an Israeli-Druze officer in the IDF and the current head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Aluf by rank, he has previously served as Central Command's executive officer and head of the Israeli Civil Administration.  Alian is one of the highest ranking Druze Arabs in the IDF and has served since 1990

The problem we are all facing goes back to 1948 when the Muslim Army told the people to be patient and when they won over the Jews, they could have the Jewish homes for themselves.  Instead of course, we Jews won the battle;  and what did the Arab leaders then tell the people?  Stay in refugee camps until we say so.  They have been there, multiplying and not learning a thing except to dig tunnels, for the past 77 years!  And whose fault is this?  The U.N.!!!  They have aided and abetted these people all along, thereby making jobs for themselves, of course, as the population has grown into a much larger number.  The UN is helping the descendants multiple times over of the original population.  

In 1948, approximately 438,000 Arabs were living in the area that would later be known as Judea and Samaria, (1st land Jews lived in from Exodus onward)  which became in 1948 part of the territory designated for the Arab state in the UN Partition Plan for Palestine. 

• This figure includes the Arab population in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, which are considered part of Judea and Samaria in the Israeli perspective. 
• During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, a large number of Arabs fled the area, contributing to the Palestinian refugee crisis. 
  
  Our 12 tribes made up the Israel Empire but 10 were taken away by 
• the Assyrians in 721 BCE, leaving Judah, and a few of Benjamin and 
• Simeon with Judea.  The 2nd Temple of Solomon was in Judea.  
  32% of 56% of land is not a habitable portion of the Negev of Palestine

  Our 56%;  lots of sand

  .  With about 32% of the population, the Jews were allocated 56% of 
• the territory (most of it the Negev desert). It contained 499,000 Jews and 438,000 Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs were allocated 42% of the land, which had a population of 818,000 Palestinian Arabs and 10,000 Jews. In consideration of its religious significance, the Jerusalem area, including Bethlehem, with 100,000 Jews and an equal number of Palestinian Arabs, was to become a corpus separatum, to be administered by the UN. The residents in the UN-administered territory were given the right to choose to be citizens of either of the new states.

The Jewish leadership accepted the partition plan as "the indispensable minimum", glad to gain international recognition but sorry that they did not receive more. The representatives of the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab League firmly opposed the UN action and rejected its authority in the matter, arguing that the partition plan was unfair to the Arabs because of the population balance at that time.

I note that these men in charge are of the Druze  sect from Islam.  They are full citizens of Israel and nationalistic along with us.  53,000 were living in Israel in 1992 in 18 villages in the Galilee. They also have representatives in the Knesset, their own religious courts,  and their own religious law.  Druze do not identify as Muslims. They maintain Arabic language and culture as integral parts of their identity, with Arabic being their primary language. Most Druze religious practices are kept secret, and conversion to their religion is not permitted for outsiders.

Resource:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tens-thousands-palestinians-flee-west-bank-refugee-camps-2025-02-18/ 

https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/09/04/idf-chief-defense-minister-appoint-civil-administration-head-against-smotrichs-wishes/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hisham-ibrahim-tapped-to-head-idfs-civil-administration-in-west-bank/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydln190xqo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassan_Alian

Who Will Take In the Palestinians and Hamas Terrorists?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

President Donald Trump speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday. (2/11/25)

Alex Brandon/AP

• Trump meets Jordan’s king: President Donald Trump made no attempt Tuesday to soften his proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza and redevelop the land into premium housing, even as King Abdullah II of Jordan suggested the Arab world was opposed. In a social media post after the meeting, Abdullah said Jordan has a “steadfast position” against displacing Palestinians.   

                                 

There are already  58 official Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Judea and Samaria (West Bank), and Gaza. Nearly one-third of the registered Palestine refugees, more than 1.5 million individuals, live in 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank,) including East Jerusalem.They've been there since 1948.  Palestinians are the longest residents ever of a refugee camp.  Is that what is going to happen to the Gazans, terrorists/civilians who have been forgotten about when it has come to their seniors' homes they helped to destroy by continuing their hiding in homes, mosques, schools, any building possible?  

Jordan and Egypt are rebelling at Trump's words in that they should take in the Palestinians, Hamas terrorists and all.  Israel has known it all along, so it's not something they have asked for.  In fact, there are refugee camps in Jordan and have been since about 1967 already.  The Palestinian leaders wanted them in these camps.  They had been fighting Israel and planned on winning, of course, telling the people to be patient and they would win and when they did, they could take over the Jewish homes.  Ah hah, they did not win, so it's been refugee camps for them at the leaders' orders.  Jordan fought them in the BLACK SEPTEMBER war, and doesn't want anymore on their land.  They are saying they will take some children who need medical attention, but that's it.  

Evidently many have forgotten that there was a huge meeting of all Muslim leaders in Khartoum, Sudan (Africa), whereby they all swore NO, NO, NO...No peace with Israel, No negotiation with Israel, No recognition of Israel. The Khartoum Resolution (Arabic: قرار الخرطوم) of 1 September 1967 was issued at the conclusion of the 1967 Arab League summit, which was convened in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in the wake of the Six-Day War.

Since then we do have the Abrahamic Accords, done during Trump's first term in office, but the Palestinians are still saying NO NO NO.  

After all ! Did Trump think that the other countries will happily take in the Palestinians?                                    

 Saudi Arabia is a huge land mass compared to Israel; made up with a lot of sand;   having 830,000 square miles    to Israel's wee 8,355 square miles of land.  That means that Arabia has more  square miles of land;  compared to 821,645 more square miles than Israel!  Who really has room for a Palestinian State of the Saudi "brothers?"

The kingdom said it valued "brotherly" states' rejection of Netanyahu's remarks."  So that makes 3 countries against the idea;  Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.  The trio doesn't want any part of Israel's problems in contending with the Palestinians. Jordan had their experience with "Black September" days,  their war with the Palestinians,   also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was September 1970, though certain aspects of the conflict continued until 17 July 1971.  That lasted a year.  It seems like Israel has had to fight them defensively ever since then. Palestinians are not  a desirable neighbor for anyone.  

 Saudi Arabia has a land area of approximately 2,149,690 square kilometers (830,000 square miles)  

Egypt has a total land area of approximately 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,662 square miles) 

 Jordan has a land area of approximately 89,342 square kilometers (34,495 square miles)       

 Israel has a   land area of about (8,355 square miles). 

Palestinian Population	1,997,328 (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.) 3,000,021 (West Bank –Judea and Samaria  2022 est.)

   Total=4,997,3349  (almost 5 million) Palestinian Arabs; 20% of Israel are citizens of Israel or about 1/5th.  

Egypt has  a population of around 117 million people, making it the most populated country in the Middle East and one of the most densely populated in Africa, with most people living along the Nile River valley and delta due to the arid climate.

Saudi Arabia has  a population estimated around 34,566,328 people.  That's 34 million people, 566 thousand, 328 people.

Jordan has  a population of around 11.5 million people. 

Israel  has a population is about 9.5 million people. 

USA is the 3rd largest country in the world with 

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United States

341,963,408

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2025/02/handsome-saudi-king-lacks-sense-of.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_Resolution#:~:text=No%20peace%20with%20Israel%2C,No%20recognition%20of%20Israel.&text=The%20Khartoum%20Resolution%20(Arabic%3A%20%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1,of%20the%20Six%2DDay%20War.

https://ecf.org.il/issues/issue/141

https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees