Life in Occupied Palestine (also see Occupied Palestine Life)
Updated 2024-07-25
Life in Gaza – Documentary On the frontline of Gaza’s conflict. Life in GazaWith a fragile ceasefire already rocked by further fighting, Gazans are attempting to rebuild their lives once again. While many are relieved at the end of violence, there is little optimism about the prospect of lasting peace. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8083
2023-11-23 What Is Life Like for Palestinians in Gaza? Life for Palestinians in Gaza under Hamas has been extremely difficult. Palestinian civilians lack basic water, sanitation, and electricity infrastructures, as well as access to upward economic mobility and the rights to freedom of speech and self-expression. The constant suffering from rampant political and economic corruption has left civilians in Gaza with a sense of despair and a longing for a change in leadership.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Brief history of the Gaza Strip
01:55 The First Intifada and economics
03:58 The Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada
05:08 The Disengagement and Palestinian elections in Gaza
06:23 The Hamas Charter and Hamas rule in Gaza
07:51 Egyptian and Israeli blockade
09:08 Hamas tunnels in Gaza
11:01 Water infrastructure in Gaza
13:00 Debt and economic corruption
14:27 Hamas leadership’s extravagant lifestyle
15:25 Hamas executions of Palestinians
16:47 March, 2019 Gazan protests against Hamas, #WeWantToLive
18:28 Lack of basic human rights in Gaza
20:51 Palestinian perspectives of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War
22:12 The Christian minority in Gaza
23:13 Hamas prevents Gazans from fleeing
24:16 What do Palestinians want when the war ends? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgAq-9_4Rzs
2023-11-05 Israel has destroyed my home, my college and my dreams On 13 October, we experienced another Nakba. We were ordered to evacuate – like people were forced from their homes during the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This meant that we had to abandon our homes and make our way toward Khan Younis in southern Gaza. We packed some basic necessities in a small bag and left our home. Our home in which we had invested so much. The streets were crowded with displaced people. The sound was one of helplessness mixed with tears. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-has-destroyed-my-home-my-college-and-my-dreams/39861
2023-11-03 Day 27 roundup of Israel’s attacks on Gaza Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast “We’re living the Nakba times again, seeing the tents come up in Khan Younis. It’s surreal. It’s surreal,” said Ghaida Hamdan, who is grieving 36 members of her family. They were killed in Israeli bombings last week. Ghaida and her mother, Ghada Ageel, joined us on Thursday’s livestream. Ghada is a visiting professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and wrote about Israel’s murder of her family in The Guardian.
“[Israel] now discovered after 16 years of an inhuman blockade, they cannot put an end to this willingness for freedom, for dignity,” Ghada said. “So now the plan of annihilation, of genocide, of expulsion, of continuing the unfinished the project of Nakba, this is what we see. My grandmother has been always telling me [that] whenever we have a generation, they come and kill it.” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-day-27-roundup-israels-attacks-gaza
2023-10-31 Palestine must thrive, not just survive There is an urgent need to look beyond statistics in Gaza – even as the death toll keeps rising. Casualties are not mere numbers. They represent the lives, dreams and hopes of a people experiencing barbaric aggression by Israel’s military occupation. Let us reflect, too, on the pain of everyone who has been bereaved. https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-must-thrive-not-just-survive/39391
2023-10-25 The Everyday Violence of Life in Occupied Palestine For centuries, Palestinian Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side-by-side in the lands that would eventually be Israel and the OPT, including along the Jordan River Valley. Since the expulsion of the Palestinian Christians and Muslims and the arrival of European Jews, the legal apparatus—or the “cold violence,” as the writer Teju Cole calls it—worked alongside paramilitary and military violence against the Palestinians to create a fantasy of an ethno-nationalist state project (the Jewish State, as it was then called). The erasure of the non-Jewish Palestinians was key to this project, either by massacres (Deir Yassin in 1948) or the wholesale removal of the Palestinian population from their land (the Nakba of 1948). The massacres and the population transfers came alongside the denial of the reality of Palestine and the Palestinian people. The heir to Ze’evi, current finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said this March, “There’s no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as a Palestinian people.” This is not an opinion that can be dismissed as a far-right rant. Likud member Ofir Akunis, minister of science and technology, said three years ago, “There’s no place for any formula to establish a Palestinian state in Western Israel.” The phrase “Western Israel” is a chilling statement about the Israeli consensus on full annexation of the West Bank with disregard for international law. https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/the-everyday-violence-of-life-in-occupied-palestine/
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