Before you make any opinion about the conflict in Israel and Gaza, you can check these facts and figures:
1. Gaza was invaded by Israel in 1967 and ever since Israel is illegally occupying the whole of the Gaza Strip.
2. Gaza is surrounded on three sides by Israel. Israeli army and Navy has blocked all these three sides of Gaza.
One side is border of Egypt where the Egyptian army along with Israeli and UN observers and monitors blocks the entry of any body from/to Gaza.
Gaza is a literally huge prison where not even a bird can enter without Israel’s permission.
3. Gaza has no seaport or airport or even a train station.
4. Gaza residents cannot leave Gaza as they don’t even have passports. Plus there are Israeli checkpoints at every place. Also no one from any country can enter Gaza without Israel’s permission which is impossible to get, forget about ordinary man even the top politicians of powerful countries had been denied entry in Gaza by Israel. Gaza is a place which is totally cut off from the rest of the world.
5. Each and every commodity of daily use comes through these Israeli checkpoints. Even milk, wheat, medicines all items come through these Israeli checkpoints. Israel charge taxes on all the items which go through these checkpoints.
6. Gaza is like a big jail. This entire country is under siege. Even inside Gaza Israel has several check posts at important junctions. The Israeli army harasses and humiliates Gaza citizens everyday as the Gaza citizens cross these check posts.
7. The UN has urged Israel numerous times to remove this illegal seizure of Gaza but Israel never listens to the UN.
More than 50 resolutions have been passed by the UN against Israel but with the USA always on its side Israel just doesn’t care.
8. The food and essentials are always in short supply in Gaza as Israel delays, discourages and harasses its imports in Gaza. Shops don’t have enough rations, hospitals don’t have enough and essential medicines. Power is in short supply, petrol and gas is in shortage too. Inflation is highest in the world in Gaza as a result of it. Poverty is rising at the highest rate also. Gaza children are among the worst malnutrition children now.
9. There are no specialised doctors or equipment to treat the serious injury or disease in any hospitals. Every now and then Israeli army bomb Gaza and the innocent civilians get hurt during bombing. These wounded civilians plead and beg in the checkpoints to let them out for treatment but the Israeli army never let them. So the wounds which could have been treated become more severe and often the wounded become handicapped for the rest of their lives.
10. Once a thriving society and rich people now have become beggars and prisoners in their own country. Can you imagine the trauma, the humiliation, the harassment, the pain in the hearts of these people who have been invaded and made prisoners and slaves in their own country?
They have been struggling for their independence since almost 50 years now. With each passing day Israel is constructing new settlements for its Israeli citizens in their land. With each passing day their hope of independence, a hope to live a normal life like any other human is fading away. Every night they sleep in pain and every morning they wake up with sorrows.
In the pretext of peace talks Israel actually is delaying their independence to capture more and more of their land everyday by constructing new Israeli homes and settlements. The Palestinians know this and they are watching it helplessly. Just like a goat watch the lion eats its children but can do nothing. They are shedding tears of blood. With Israeli soldiers harassing them , cursing them, abusing them mocking at them, hurting them , killing them every day in their very own land, what all Palestinians can do is watch and cry.
What suggestions do you have now? The western paid media is making and broadcasting news in such a manner that one should feel as if Gaza residents are the ones who are occupying Israel and Israel is fighting for the freedom of its citizens. So that people can only curse and blame Gaza residents.
Can you try to feel their misery and helplessness? We cannot even imagine spending even one day in the jail called Gaza and they are living there every day.
It is time the peace- and justice-loving world stood up for them for the sake of humanity.