Now marks the 6th month of the war and the brutality is still going on. The IDF has dislocated the Palestinian civilians in Gaza countless times throughout the war. The IDF keep announcing certain places as “safe zones” for the civilians to migrate to throughout the war. Initially they announced a city in the North of Gaza as a “safe zone” and these safe zones happen to be changing every month and happens to be closer to the South of Gaza each time. The last safe zone was Rafah(the southern city of Gaza), and now they changed the safe zone to be more South of Rafah which is the Sinai desert close to the Egypt border. It is a barren desert which is not habitable by any standard. Israel’s plan to push them to Egypt & get rid of Gaza was clear from start, and the oct 7 attack only served as a catalyst, an excuse to continue with their plan.
People don’t usually like to talk about wars especially the Palestinian-Israeli conflict because they view it as “too complex.” So here’s a slither to dumb it down for everyone to understand to see through the injustices that have been occurring before the Oct 7. Everyone wants to talk about the horror Hamas has committed in oct 7, but nobody wants to roll the tape before oct 7. So here’s an attempt:
Before the first Intifada took place in 1997, Israel created laws based on race to disfavour the Palestinians such as restricting Palestinians from owning or buying farms to take control of their economy. They also have a law where Israel is allowed to imprison a Palestinian if they throw a stone at an Israeli. Stones were thrown by young palestinian kids at the Jewish settlers who were kicking the Palestinians from their homes and living in their houses instead. Those thrown stones were not intended to kill nor harm any of the Israeli settlers. It was mostly an expression for anger and a symbol for Palestinian freedom. These messed up laws enables Israel to imprison innocent Palestinians, and explains the large number of Palestinian prisoners which are children and women.
https://reliefweb.int/...nces-throwing-stones
They created all these laws to have more control over them. Mind you, Israelis were doing all this before there was “Hamas.”
After the first intifada, Hamas was formed. Its political goal was not to eradicate Jews as people make it out to be. It was to end the brutal occupation of Israel who were Jews. And no, Hamas is not an Islamist organisation, it is a nationalist organisation fighting for their freedom of their land through violent means. They’re not an Islamist organisation because there’s a good number of Palestinians who are Christians. They just want to live in their land freely and not feel like a prisoner on their own land. Are their goals and emotions valid? Yes. But are the means they’re using to achieve their goal valid? No. Their means are violent. But then again there have been peaceful marches organised by innocent Palestinian civilians to end Israel’s occupation but they all ended with many Palestinian casualties and didn’t even make it to the headlines.
Years after and Israel still is still carrying out the same activities, created more laws to restrict Palestinian freedom which includes imprisonment of Palestinians if they organise protests with more than 5 members. They also slowly took more control of Palestinians economy to even till their water supply. They have laws that restricts Palestinians in the West Bank (where there’s no Hamas. Hamas is in Gaza) to prevent from building wells or drill holes in the ground for water.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-206852/
https://reliefweb.int/...ion-west-bank-enarhe
On top of all this, they will punish the innocent Palestinian civilians in the West Bank if a rocket is thrown from Gaza by Hamas at Israel. Why punish the innocent Palestinians in the West Bank when these are people who clearly have nothing to do with Hamas? Israel punishes the innocent to send a message to Hamas to stop throwing rockets at them at the expense of innocent Palestinians. They treat the Palestinians in the West Bank as pawns for their chess strategy. All this to have more control over Hamas and over the innocents in West Bank. There was an incident in the West Bank in the region called Huwara, where Israeli settlers set an entire Palestinian neighbourhood on fire. The Israeli IDF was aware of the settler terrorism that was about to happen and did nothing to prevent it. They were trying to justify this settler terrorism on innocent Palestinians because of 1 Hamas member. What did these innocent Palestinian civilians have anything to do with that Hamas attack?
https://amp.cnn.com/...-cmd-intl/index.html. And the IDF did not even punish the settlers. If it was a Palestinian that had done it, then it would’ve been a different story.
Israel even created 2 separate judicial courts (civilian court & military court). These 2 separated courts are not determined by the nature of crime but rather by if the crime is committed by a Palestinian or Israeli. So a Palestinian & Israeli could be committing the same crime, but they would be sent to 2 different courts with different laws and different punishments. Again all this to have more control over the Palestinians and more room for discriminatory laws against Palestinians.
TLDR: What I’m trying to say is Israel’s entire judicial system and its military openly discriminates and targets innocent Palestinians. There are no safe spaces for Palestinians. All these 80 years of generational trauma where the IDF beats the Palestinians’ family members in front of them, kicks then out of their home, imprisons their children for solely throwing stones, kills their family and friends, doesn’t give them a right to basic needs such as food and water is enough to create and fuel barbaric acts. Israel turned them into animals by treating them as such so now deal with your consequences.