Israel’s Foreign Minister Moseh Sharett (R) seated with members provisional govt, Golda Meir Israel while Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion reads Proclamation of Nationhood. Jerusalem, Israel May 1948.
Banned from 70 occupations, including jobs in medicine, law and business enterprises.
Prohibited from owning, inheriting, and purchasing property.
Not allowed to receive or have severely limited access to public services, such as social security, subsidized health care, and public education.
Are forced to live in “squalid conditions” with overcrowding, poverty, and unemployment.
Prohibited from bring building supplies into refugee camps, and, in some camps, supplies such as nails and wooden planks are confiscated.
Subject to state violence: Lebanese troops fought alleged extremists in the Nahr El-Bared Palestinian ‘refugee’ camp for three months in 2007, leaving 50 civilians dead and 33,000 homeless. In 2010, the government began building a security barrier to encircle a nearby ‘refugee’ camp, Baddawi.
Israel offered to have the ships dock in Ashdod port and to transfer the aid to Gaza. This offer was made again and again. Five boats complied and were safely led to shore. The sixth boat refused.
The sixth boat – the Turkish Mavi Marmara – is the boat where the violence took place.#Armed with knives and metal bars, those on board the Marmara carried out pre-planned violence. A mob of extremists attacked each Israeli soldier. They threw one soldier off the top deck of the ship.
The Turkish boat was sent to provoke – it was funded and organized by a Turkish Islamist organization, the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), that has links to fundamentalist jihadi groups.
Israel transfers about 15,000 tons of supplies and humanitarian aid every week to the people of Gaza.
Israel said it will deliver any humanitarian aid that was in the boats to Gaza along with its own daily delivery of aid.
Israel left Gaza in hopes of peace in 2005 and, in return, received more than 8,000 rockets and terrorist attacks. Israel has sought peace and compromise with its neighbors for all of its 64 years, and it will continue to do so.
Hamas is responsible for the suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis. Their racist charter calls for Islamic domination; their stance is unchanged, and they repress any Palestinians that try and counter their regime.
According to the International Middle East Media Center, Hamas has committed systematic attacks of media workers with brutal force; intolerance for dialogue and press freedom. Hamas shut down dozens of media organizations, banned the distribution of some newspapers, and prosecuted journalists.
According to the UN, the standard of living in Gaza and the West Bank ranked higher than all South Asian and Arab counties, and even outpaced Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
