Nadene Goldfoot
- Gaza Strip: The Gaza Strip has eight official and no unofficial refugee camps, and 1,221,110 registered refugees. UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians | UN News. I believe they are the longest refugees that the UN has had to maintain.
- The mass displacement in 1948, known as the Nakba (meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic), has an importance to Palestinians across the world, said Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, addressing a high-level event at UN Headquarters in New York, marking the day. They consider Israel's existence of a country as an occupation on the land. That's what their leaders have led them to believe. For 75 years---unbelievable that people would continue to live and think like this.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), al-Shati had a population of 40,734 inhabitants in 2017. As of July 2023, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reports a population of 90,173 registered refugees. The camp is the third largest refugee camp in the Palestinian Territories.
Before September 2000, when Israel closed off its border with the Gaza Strip due to the violence of the Second Intifada, the majority of al-Shati's work force were laborers in Israel or worked in agriculture. Today, some refugees work in workshops and sewing factories. A sizable number of the camp's 2453 families depend on fishing for income. It contains a sewage system, a health center and 23 schools (17 primary, 6 secondary).
The latest news is that The home of Hamas’ senior political leader was destroyed in an alleged Israeli airstrike Saturday, officials said. The family residence of Ismail Haniyeh, located in the Shati refugee camp on the northern outskirts of Gaza City, was hit Saturday morning, according to the Hamas-run media outlet in Gaza.There were no immediate details about possible casualties or the true extent of the damage. At the time of the strike, Haniyeh’s home was being used by his two sons, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said.Haniyeh was elected Hamas’ political chief in 2017, and has lived in luxurious “exile” in Qatar since 2019. Qatar is where Blinken went to talk with the leaders about the attack on Israel and the result of the war.
"Blinken went into joint talks with the foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the chair of the PLO executive committee. All have denounced Israel's tactics against Hamas, which they say constitutes unlawful collective punishment of the Palestinian people."
Of course, Hamas, who were the purveyors of the shocking barbaric killings of Israelis during the Music Festival and other attacks along the border on October 7th would say that.
First of all, Hamas was created in 1987 and only won their parliamentary elections in January 2006. It's the offshoot of Fatah, the fighting section.
Israel has been living under bombardment of rockets, mortars and missiles all this time along the border, especially the town of Sderot,and Ashkelon where the hospital that takes in all people has had to move to the basement for surgery, etc. and occasional hits in Tel Aviv.
75 years ago on May 14, 1948, Israel was created. That's what they are moaning and groaning about, created because the Ottoman Empire, who owned the land, lost it in World War I to the Allies, Britain, France, etc. The Brits held a 30 year mandate and left in 1948, which is when the Jews took their land back according to all the legal deals and papers necessary.
Hamas is closely tied to Syria, Iran and Lebanon. It receives funds from Iran and also have been getting funds from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Western Europe, Hezbollah and others. It's listed as a terror organization by US State Department.
Just think, in the 1920s, Emir Feisal met Chaim Weizmann and was all for Israel's birth, hoping that the Arabs living there would profit and learn trades and so on and benefit from it. His attitude changed by the attacks by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Sherif of Jerusalem, known as the Grand Mufti, who was against the Jews living on the land and had even gone to Hitler to complain and seek help to stop them. Feisal went on to be king of Iraq and king of Syria. If he had more appeal to the Arabs, they would have had a much better life. they chose the wrong man to follow when they went along with the Mufti who was the local and not Feisal, an educated man of the world.
Since then they voted in Hamas, and not Fatah. Even in politics they made poor choices. It's thought that they were strong-armed into voting this way, which could be true. Then again, they had never voted before and were a people easily led. I bet the voting apparatus could have been faulty, like Trump thought his was, especially in Gaza.
Between the Mufti and Hamas, the Palestinian Arabs have raised more Hamas terrorists. Their schools have taught hatred for Jews. Their parents have been brain-washed against Jews. That hatred spilled out on October 7th in an unbelievable act of violence. There is no way that Israelis can live with such people on their borders anymore. Trust as human beings just went out the window.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugee_camps
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