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Board Politics & Society
Re: Justifications for Gaza
by
zyj3000
on 24/08/2014, 04:00:08 UTC
Did the 2005 Israeli redeployment from Gaza end Israeli military operations in Gaza?

No, while Israeli did withdraw its military bases from Gaza and redeployed its forces to bases outside of Gaza in 2005, it continues to carry out daily military operations in and attacks on Gaza.  According to Defense for Children International – Palestine, during the first year after the disengagement the Israeli military fired over 15,000 shells into Gaza, conducted over 550 airstrikes on Gaza, and carried out regular military incursions into Gaza.  A total of 525 Palestinians were killed and 1,527 injured during these attacks.  This period included two major military operations.  Operation Summer Rains during June 2006 left at least 256 Palestinians dead and 848 injured.  At least 85 more Palestinians were killed in Gaza during a November 2006 military offensive which was codenamed Operation Autumn Clouds.

The next major Israeli military operation in Gaza was Operation Warm Winter in February and March 2008.  During this attack Israel killed 120 (34 children) and injured 269 (at least 63 children) Palestinians.  A ceasefire negotiated between Hamas and Israel in June 2008 dramatically lowered violence until Israel killed six Palestinians during an incursion into Gaza in November 2008.  Tit for tat attacks between Gaza and Israel escalated over the next month until Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in December 2008.  More than 1,400 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, were killed by Israel during Operation Cast Lead and over 16,000 Gazans were permanently displaced from their homes which were destroyed during the attack.  Finally, Israel carried out Operation Pillar of Cloud in Gaza during November 2012 killing 168 Palestinians and destroying hundreds of homes.  Between all of these operations Israel conducted military incursions into Gaza or fired into Gaza using ground artillery, naval forces, and airstrikes on a daily basis.

Gazans suffered nearly 7 decades of oppresssion, murder and maiming by israeli brutal forces, if you are one of them would you just sit there do nothing and watch israeli soldiers kill your neighbours one by one until they kill you too?