What is the Gaza Strip?

On October 7, Hamas, a militant group primarily based within the Gaza Strip, launched a lethal assault on Israel, killing greater than 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping greater than 200. In retaliation, Israeli airstrikes had killed greater than 7,000 Palestinians when this video was revealed on October 27, and 1000’s extra have been killed since in Gaza, the place Palestinians have lived for many years underneath an occupation and blockade.

Since 1967, Israel has imposed tight restrictions on journey and important items resembling meals, gas, drugs, and water in its occupied territories. In 2007, these restrictions grew to become even tighter in Gaza after Hamas seized energy there. Since then, it has been almost not possible for Palestinians to depart Gaza or to entry an sufficient provide of important items.

At present, the Gaza Strip, with a inhabitants of over 2 million Palestinians, is a sufferer of what many name “collective punishment” as Israel bombards its inhabitants, shuts off entry to the web, energy, meals, water, and drugs, forces them to depart their houses, and prepares for a floor invasion.

This newest episode of Vox Atlas explains how the expertise of Palestinians in Gaza received thus far, and what’s behind Israel’s occupation and its blockade of Gaza.

Sources and readings:

Thanks for watching! We all know we couldn’t cowl all the things concerning the Gaza Strip, this was only a begin. Beneath are just a few of sources and readings you would possibly discover useful to be taught extra.

• Gisha, an Israeli nonprofit that works to guard freedom of motion for Palestinians, has achieved so much research on the closure of Gaza and how it impacts Palestinians there.
• Visualizing Palestine, a nonprofit that makes use of information and analysis to make visuals, and B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, have useful databases that monitor fatalities over time within the Gaza Strip, Israel, and the West Bank.
• This United Nations document database helped us perceive infrastructural destruction in previous conflicts with Israel.
• The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappé, professor of historical past on the College of Exeter
• The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi, professor of contemporary Arab research at Columbia College
• The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development by Sara Roy, senior analysis scholar on the Heart for Center Jap Research at Harvard College

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