What’s the Gaza Strip?

On October 7, Hamas, a militant group based mostly 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 printed on October 27, and hundreds 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 similar to meals, gas, medication, and water in its occupied territories. In 2007, these restrictions turned even tighter in Gaza after Hamas seized energy there. Since then, it has been almost unimaginable for Palestinians to depart Gaza or to entry an ample 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 medication, forces them to depart their properties, and prepares for a floor invasion.

This newest episode of Vox Atlas explains how the expertise of Palestinians in Gaza bought so 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 every part in regards to the Gaza Strip, this was only a begin. Beneath are a couple of 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 finished a lot analysis on the closure of Gaza and the way it impacts Palestinians there.
• Visualizing Palestine, a nonprofit that makes use of knowledge and analysis to make visuals, and B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, have helpful databases that observe fatalities over time within the Gaza Strip, Israel, and the West Financial institution.
• This United Nations doc database helped us perceive infrastructural destruction in previous conflicts with Israel.
• The Largest Jail on Earth: A Historical past of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappé, professor of historical past on the College of Exeter
• The Hundred Years’ Struggle on Palestine: A Historical past of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi, professor of contemporary Arab research at Columbia College
• The Gaza Strip: The Political Financial system of De-development by Sara Roy, senior analysis scholar on the Middle for Center Jap Research at Harvard College

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