Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza began seven decades ago
Joseph Massad | 26 December 2023 17:23 GMT
Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza is part of a long and brutal history that goes back to 1951 | Middle East Eye
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The US, EU, and UK do not tire of defending Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people with the cliched incantation that “Israel has the right to defend itself”.
In August 2022, Israel bombed Palestinians in Gaza over three days, killing 49 people, including 17 children. The US and the EU’s response to the massacre was to declare emphatically their support for “Israel’s right to defend itself” and mutedly to regret the death of Palestinian civilians.
That was the last major massacre Israel committed in Gaza before its current genocidal war, but it certainly was not the first. For that, we must go back to 1951, when Israel began to raid the Gaza Strip.(...)