Israel-Gaza deaths: 293 Gazans & 6 Israelis killed in past year
With the recent surge in violence between Israel and Gaza, it is important to examine events of the past year and to learn the chronology and details of the recent deaths among both populations…
By Alison Weir | If Americans Knew | May 6, 2019
With news reports focusing on recent deaths in Israel and Gaza, it’s valuable to enlarge the time period being examined.
Israeli soldiers have been shooting Gazan men, women, and children every week for over the past year.
Israeli forces have killed approximately 290 Gazans and have injured over 29,000 since Gazans began their weekly Great March of Return on March 30th (see below about why they are marching.) A few additional Gazans died during this time period from wounds inflicted by Israeli forces earlier.
Among those killed and maimed have been numerous medics, women, children, and journalists. Approximately 126 Gazans have had legs and/or arms amputated, and others have been permanently paralyzed.
While Israeli governmental statements, often parroted by U.S. media, claim that Israel targets “terror,” the large majority of Gazans killed by Israeli forces have been civilians.
During the same time period, Gazan resistance fighters have killed 6 Israelis, one of them a Palestinian. (It is difficult to provide a number for Israelis wounded during this time since Israeli statistics for injured include those suffering from panic attacks.)
The names and details of both the Palestinians and the Israelis killed are listed on this timeline.
Deaths during the last 3 days:
On Friday, May 3, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians and injured 82. Among the injured were 34 children, two journalists and three paramedics.
On Saturday, May 4, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians (including an infant and her mother). Israeli forces also targeted and destroyed a news agency. Journalistic organizations around the world have condemned this attack. This attack was largely unreported by U.S. news media.
On Sunday, May 5, Palestinian resistance fighters killed 3 Israelis and 1 Palestinian Israeli, and Israeli military forces killed 19 Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy and a 4-month-old girl named Maria. The Israeli shelling destroyed or damaged 600 Palestinian homes, businesses and livelihoods.
The Palestinian Israeli who died, Ziad Alhamamd, was a bedouin from the unrecognized Negev village of as-Sawaween who was working in an Israeli factory in Ashakalon when it was hit by a rocket from Gaza. Gaza’s rockets are mostly home-made and lack guidance systems.
Unrecognized villages are Palestinian villages that were in Palestine before Israel was created that are not formally recognized by the state of Israel. They have no access to Israeli services such as water, electricity, telephones, sewage systems, roads, and often schools and voting stations. Many of the villages are under Israeli demolition orders and never know when their homes will be destroyed. Alhamamd’s village of Sawaween had been denied a school for its 350 elementary school-aged children.
US media provide Israel-centric reports
U.S. news media have published a number of reports on the recent violence that emphasize the Israeli deaths, begin with Israeli victims, largely ignore the year-long killing of Gazans, and frame Israeli actions as defensive.
The New York Times lead paragraph that framed its report yesterday is an example:
“Fighting between Israel and Gaza escalated rapidly on Sunday in the worst combat since the last full-blown war in 2014, with Palestinian rocket and missile attacks killing four Israeli civilians and Israeli forces taking aim at individual Gaza militants.”
“The death toll continues to rise Sunday on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border in one of the most intense flare-ups of violence in the region in years, shattering a month-long lull in attacks.
“Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired more than 600 rockets into southern Israel in less than 24 hours, killing at least four Israelis and leaving several more in critical condition.”
Below is how the Washington Post introduced its report today:
“An uneasy cease-fire settled over the cities of southern Israel on Monday after a weekend that brought a rain of 600 rockets from the Gaza Strip, but not all residents thought the truce was a good thing.
“Near the explosion-scarred house of Moshe Agadi, 58, who became the first Israeli since 2014 to die in rocket fire from Gaza, mothers took their children to play in a park after 48 hours of sheltering indoors.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli military has abducted 11 Palestinians in the West Bank, uprooted 120 Palestinian olive trees, and an Israeli NGO published a report revealing that Israeli authorities forced almost 3,000 Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem between 2004 and 2019, deliberately leaving them homeless, including 1,574 of minors.
Total number of Israeli and Palestinian deaths including those outside Gaza
Altogether, 343 Palestinians have died from Israeli attacks, and 16 Israelis have died from Palestinian attacks since March 30, 2018 .
At least 9,908 Palestinians and 1,267 Israelis have been killed by someone from the other side since 2000.
Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew, president of the Council for the National Interest, and author of Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel.
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Amazingly one sided statistics for a population that calls themselves “Gods Chosen People” and both sides of the argument live, apparently in “The Holy Land”…….
You’d think that “God” would solve this problem, if he/she was any good, wouldn’t you?
Maybe the Good ol’ USA can pull them into line huh?…….Naaaa, I didn’t think so either.
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As good and fact-filled as Alison’s report is, I wish she had delved into some contextual issues that I feel are crucial. For example, I had an email conversation with a friend today, and this is the gist of two points I made to her:
–This latest Zionist exploitation of an opportunity — perhaps an “engineered” opportunity at that — occurred on the day or day before the onset of Ramadan! I am convinced that, somewhere, at some level in the psychotic Ziomindset, this was a factor…how better to let the Palestinian collectivity know that “We are in charge of your fate 24-7; we can do anything to you at any time we want; we will claim that we have the “right to defense”; we will ruin your Ramadan; and the world, including the UN, will rise up in unison and shout “You Palestinians: Stop firing rockets into Israel!”
–I’d like to see a reasoned analysis by a (non-Zionist) expert on military firepower to address this question: Of the 600 or however many “rockets” that were fired from Gaza over the past few days, how would the COLLECTIVE PAYLOAD of ALL of them compare with the payload of EVEN (a typical) ONE of the hundreds or thousands of missiles, bombs, etc., unleashed by the Zionist entity on the Gazan concentration camp over the same time span?
A Palestinian Christian sent to me this morning a passionate and wise reflection by the Catholic Patriarch of Palestine. I found the website; here it is: https://al-bushra.org/reflection-key-to-open-door-of-peace-is-in-the-hands-of-israel/ . I’d like to hope that Alison, in a subsequent release (or someone else), will make the point that this reflection PUTS THE LIE once and forever to the always-recurring Zionist attempt to pit Palestinian Christians against Palestinian Muslims, intimating, with the evil cleverness that only Zionists can muster, that Christians are not uncomfortable with “living” under Zionist occupation and oppression.
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