Editing Palestinian genocide

{{Infobox military conflict|conflict=The Nakba|date=[[Balfour Declaration|2 November 1917]] - present|result=<b>Ongoing</b>
*Expulsion of many [[Palestine|Palestinians]] from the [[State of Palestine]]
*Continued oppression of Palestinians|place=[[State of Palestine]]|territory=Occupation of most of the [[Palestine|Palestinian territory]] by the [[State of Israel]]|combatants_header=Groups involved|combatant1='''1917–1948'''<br>
[[Zionism|Zionist]] organizations<br>
[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom]]<br>
''Supported by:''<br>
[[Russian Empire]] (until 1917)<br>
[[French Republic]]*[[United States of America]]<br>
'''1948–present'''<br>
[[State of Israel|"State of Israel"]]<br>
<i>Supported by:</i><br>
[[United Nations]]<br>
[[United States of America]]<br>
[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]<br>
*[[Canada]]<br>
[[European Union]]<br>
*[[French Republic]]<br>
[[Arab Republic of Egypt]] (from 2005)|combatant2='''1917–1948'''<br>
[[Sublime Ottoman State]] (until 1918)<br>
*[[Ottoman Syria]]<br>
[[Palestine|Palestinian]] organizations<br>
''Supported by:''<br>
[[Arab Kingdom of Syria]] (1919-1920)<br>
<b>1948-present</b><br>
[[State of Palestine]]<br>
*[[West Bank]]<br>
*[[Gaza Strip]]<br>
[[Syrian Arab Republic]] (from 1967)<br>
*[[Golan Heights]]<br>
[[Republic of Lebanon]] (from 1978)<br>
<i>Supported by:</i><br>
[[Kingdom of Saudi Arabia]]<br>
[[Republic of Turkey]]<br>
[[Arab Republic of Egypt]] (until 1980)<br>
[[Islamic Republic of Iran]] (from 1985)<br>
[[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]] (from 1996)|units1=[[British Armed Forces]] (until 1948)<br>[[Jewish National Council]] (1920-1948)<br>[[Haganah]] (1920-1948)<br>[[Irgun]] (1931-1948)<br>[[National Military Organization in Israel]] (1940-1948)<br>[[Mahal volunteers]] (1947-1949)<br>[[Israel Occupation Forces]] (1948-present)|units2=[[State of Palestine|Palestinian resistance groups]]
*[[Hamas]]
*[[DFLP]]
*[[Islamic Jihad]]
*[[Lion's Den]]
*[[PFLP]]
[[League of Arab States]]
*[[Hezbollah]]|image=File:Colonization of Palestine.png|caption=Map of Palestinian land occupied by Zionists since 1947}}

The '''Palestinian genocide''', also known as the '''Nakba<ref name=":1">[https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948 The Nakba did not start or end in 1948]</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />''' and wrongly called the '''"Israeli"-Palestinian conflict''' by [[the West]],<ref>[https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/02/israeli-palestinian-conflict-danger-no-solution-messaging The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Danger of ‘No Solution’ Messaging]</ref> is the ongoing systematic [[genocide]] and [[oppression]] of the [[State of Palestine|Palestinians]] by the [[State of Israel|"State of Israel"]]. It is defined by the [[Settler colonialism|settler colonial]] project of the "Israeli state" known as [[Zionism]] and has pushed for the cultural destruction of the Palestinian people.<ref name=":2">[https://www.palestineremembered.com/WhatIsNakba.html What is Nakba?]</ref><ref name=":3">[https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/On-the-72nd-Nakba-Palestine-Faces-Its-Biggest-Threat--20200515-0004.html On the 72nd Nakba Palestine Faces Its Biggest Threat]</ref><ref>[https://www.liberationschool.org/massacres-were-indispensable-to-creation-of-the-israeli-state/ Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIaYSd87g1U How Israel colonized Palestine]</ref> The genocide has led to the rise of Palestinian resistance groups such as [[Hamas]], the [[PFLP]] and the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are Right to Resist"]</ref> Resistance to the genocide has led to the Zionist Entity enacting a [[Siege of Gaza|siege]] on the [[Gaza Strip]] with the goal of eliminating all Palestinian resistance as well as the population, so that it may be settled as well.<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2022.2065261?journalCode=fjhr20 Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study]</ref>

== History ==

=== First World War ===
{{Main article|First World War}}
During the [[First World War]], two of the main combatants on the [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]] front were the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] (UK), alongside its vast [[British Empire]], and the [[Sublime Ottoman State]].<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/middle-eastern-theatre-of-world-war-i/m08qz1l?hl=en Middle Eastern theatre of World War I]</ref> The region of Palestine was under the rule of the Ottomans as part of [[Ottoman Syria]] prior to the outbreak of the First World War.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/place/Syria/Ottoman-period Ottoman period]</ref> Under Ottoman rule, both [[Islam|Muslim]] Palestinians and the [[Judaism|Jewish people]] recieved a level of relative equality as the Islamic Ottomans were open to sheltering Jewish communities that faced oppression by [[Europe|European]] powers, especially the [[French Republic]].<ref>[https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2017/10/13/jewish-community-in-ottoman-empire Jewish Community in Ottoman Empire]</ref>

The Ottomans entered the First World War on 2 November 1914 when the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russian Empire]] declared war on them due to their naval activities and their close ties to the [[German Empire (1871–1918)|German Empire]], Russia's war-time enemy.<ref>[https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire/enters-the-war Page 4 – Ottoman Empire enters the First World War]</ref> Almost immediately upon Ottoman entry into the war, the British took advantage of their [[Colonialism|colonial]] power in [[Kuwait]] and [[Egypt]] to invade both [[Ottoman Iraq]] and Ottoman Syria. The Ottomans, which had placed their early war-time capabilities on trying to fight off the Russians in the [[Caucasus]], failed to hold Palestine, losing the region by 1918.<ref>[https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire/at-war Page 5 – Ottoman Empire at war]</ref> With British control in Palestine secured, they issued the [[Balfour Declaration]] on 2 November 1917. This declaration promised the Zionists, a political movement of Jews in Europe hoping to settler colonize Palestine, all of the Palestinian territory.<ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/11/2/more-than-a-century-on-the-balfour-declaration-explained More than a century on: The Balfour Declaration explained]</ref> As a result, Zionists began stepping up their activities in Palestine and officially launched their settler colonial project.<ref name=":1" />

=== Nakba ===
[[File:Zionist massacre.jpg|thumb|381x381px|Corpses of Palestinians massacred by Zionists]]
The [[United Nations]] accepted Resolution 194 on 29 November 1947, which divided [[Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)|British Palestine]] into a Jewish and Arab state, with Jerusalem administered directly by the UN.<ref name=":12">{{News citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement|date=2022-07-19|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/a-history-of-israeli-destruction-of-the-two-state-solution/281468/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721021655/https://www.mintpressnews.com/a-history-of-israeli-destruction-of-the-two-state-solution/281468/|archive-date=2022-07-21|retrieved=2022-07-25}}</ref> Under the initial plan, Zionists controlled 54% of Palestine's territory but only made up a third of its population.<ref name=":4">{{Web citation|author=Joyce Chediac|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=Why Washington is responsible for every death in Gaza|date=2023-10-13|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/why-washington-is-responsible-for-every-death-in-gaza/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013215121/https://www.liberationnews.org/why-washington-is-responsible-for-every-death-in-gaza/|archive-date=2023-10-13}}</ref> Zionist forces soon began an ethnic cleansing campaign and forced almost a million Palestinians off their land.<ref name=":12" /> During and after the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War|1948 Arab–"Israeli" War]], over 750,000 Palestinians (75% of the population)<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Palestine Remembered|title=What is Nakba?|url=https://www.palestineremembered.com/WhatIsNakba.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006142543/https://www.palestineremembered.com/WhatIsNakba.html|archive-date=2021-10-06|retrieved=2022-06-13}}</ref> were dispossessed and became homeless in an event known as the [[Nakba]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement|date=2022-07-19|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/a-history-of-israeli-destruction-of-the-two-state-solution/281468/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721021655/https://www.mintpressnews.com/a-history-of-israeli-destruction-of-the-two-state-solution/281468/|archive-date=2022-07-21|retrieved=2022-07-25}}</ref>

In March 1948, more than 95% of Palestinians still lived on their original land. As part of [[Plan Dalet]], implemented by the Zionist Entity's leader [[David Ben-Gurion]], Zionist forces and their allies attacked peaceful Palestinian villages. On 9 April 1948, the Irgun militia killed almost the entire population of the [[Deir Yassin]] village near Jerusalem. Between December 1947 and January 1949, the "Israeli" military and Zionist militias committed at least 29 massacres of Palestinians.<ref name=":02">{{News citation|author=Richard Becker|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state|date=2021-05-15|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/massacres-were-indispensable-to-creation-of-the-israeli-state/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103013620/https://www.liberationschool.org/massacres-were-indispensable-to-creation-of-the-israeli-state/|archive-date=2022-01-03|retrieved=2022-06-21}}</ref>

After the withdrawal of [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] troops from the city of Haifa on 21 April 1948, the [[Haganah]], the Zionist Entity's military, rolled barrel bombs filled with dynamite and gasoline into the city and shelled it with mortars. The army played screaming noises on loudspeakers and only 4,000 Palestinians out of the original 65,000 remained in the city.<ref name=":02" />

By the early 1950s, 80% of Palestine was occupied by settlers and the rest was divided into the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]].<ref name=":12" />

=== Six Day War ===
In 1967, "Israel" attacked Palestine, [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]], and [[Arab Republic of Egypt|Egypt]] and occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights within five days. Due to the Six Day War, the Zionist Entity drove 300,000 more Palestinians off their land<ref name=":02" /> and occupied East Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[TeleSur]]|title=On the 72nd Nakba Palestine Faces Its Biggest Threat|date=2020-05-15|url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/On-the-72nd-Nakba-Palestine-Faces-Its-Biggest-Threat--20200515-0004.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601035034/https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/On-the-72nd-Nakba-Palestine-Faces-Its-Biggest-Threat--20200515-0004.html|archive-date=2022-06-01|retrieved=2022-06-25}}</ref> Zionist forces used [[napalm]] with U.S. support.<ref name=":4" />

=== First Intifada ===
In 1987, a group of Islamic mutual aid groups in Gaza united to form [[Islamic Resistance Movement|Hamas]]. In 1992, the occupier exiled hundreds of Hamas members, violating international law. The [[United Nations Security Council|UN Security Council]] condemned the expulsions.<ref name=":03">{{Web citation|author=Alan Nasser|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]|title=Hamas: What It Is, What It Wants, and What Israel Makes of It|date=2009-01-12|url=https://mronline.org/2009/01/12/hamas-what-it-is-what-it-wants-and-what-israel-makes-of-it/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024093042/https://mronline.org/2009/01/12/hamas-what-it-is-what-it-wants-and-what-israel-makes-of-it/|archive-date=2021-10-24|retrieved=2022-09-09}}</ref>

=== Oslo Accords ===
[[File:West Bank.png|thumb|278x278px|Zionist forces have occupied much of the West Bank since 1993. Green areas are still under Palestinian control.]]
In 1993, the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] signed the Oslo Accords in an attempt to make peace with the Zionist entity. Zionists immediately violated the agreement by occupying parts of the West Bank and creating hundreds of checkpoints to limit Palestinian movement.<ref name=":4" />

=== 21st century ===

==== Second Intifada ====
* In 2006, after the Palestinian people in Gaza elected Hamas in a fair election, the occupier blockaded Gaza.<ref name=":5">{{Web citation|author=Joyce Chediac|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=Refuting Israel’s lies about its invasion of Gaza|date=2023-10-31|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/exposing-israels-lies-about-its-invasion-of-gaza/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031202308/https://www.liberationnews.org/exposing-israels-lies-about-its-invasion-of-gaza/|archive-date=2023-10-31}}</ref>
* In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights council mandated a report delving into the situation between Gaza and "Israel".<ref>https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf</ref> It found many crimes committed by the Zionist Entity against the Palestinians, including:
** that the blockade does not exonerate the Zionist Entity from providing humanitarian aid to Gaza (which they don't do),
** inadequate warnings against bomb strikes, including the use of white phosphorus weapons against hospitals which are not military targets,
** indiscriminate bombing in Gaza in retaliation for pinpointed strikes from Hamas (Hamas gives advance warning of their rocket fires which gives ample time for "Israel" to evacuate the population in shelters, most of which will be caught by the Iron Dome, both of which Gaza does not have),
** violent, degrading, and arbitrary detentions of Palestinian civilians,
** deliberate military disproportion used in retaliation.
* Over the course of seven weeks 2014, "Israel" killed over 500 Palestinian children and 850 adults in Gaza. Four boys playing at a beach in Gaza were killed by navy precision missiles, although the Zionist Entity claimed this was an "honest mistake."<ref>{{News citation|author=Jonathan Cook|newspaper=Antiwar.com|title=‘Honest Mistakes’: How US and Israel Justify Targeting and Killing Civilians|date=2021-11-26|url=https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2021/11/25/honest-mistakes-how-us-and-israel-justify-targeting-and-killing-civilians/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412090916/https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2021/11/25/honest-mistakes-how-us-and-israel-justify-targeting-and-killing-civilians/|archive-date=2022-04-12|retrieved=2022-05-07}}</ref>
* In October 2015, the Institute for Middle East Understanding shared quotes from senior Zionist Entity government officials<ref>https://imeu.org/article/extremism-incitement-to-racial-hatred-senior-israeli-officials-in-their-own</ref> depicting supremacist and [[Racism|racist]] statements against the Palestinian people in particular.

==== Great March of Return ====
* The "Israeli" Defense (or Occupation) Force, the Zionist Entity's military branch, receives and executes orders to shoot children with live ammunition. It was made most apparent during the [[2018 Great March of Return]], during which Palestinians peacefully marched towards the fence isolating Gaza, and were fired at with live ammunition including an as-of-yet unidentified chemical agent. Zionists snipers wounded several thousand Palestinians and murdered 223, including 46 children.<ref name=":5" /> As whistleblower Eran Efrati explained,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU</ref> soldiers do not decide by themselves to fire live ammunition—the order has to be decided, then given out to the soldier who executes it, then relayed back to command. Therefore, these can not be the acts of lone rogue soldiers.
* In 2019, "Israel" began an extensive facial recognition program in the [[West Bank]]. One former soldier of the Zionist Entity described it as the IDF's "secret '[[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]]' for Palestinians.'"<ref>{{News citation|author=Brett Wilkins|newspaper=Antiwar.com|title=‘Organized State Terrorism’: Palestinians Condemn New Israeli Surveillance Revelations|date=2021-11-10|url=https://original.antiwar.com/brett_wilkins/2021/11/09/organized-state-terrorism-palestinians-condemn-new-israeli-surveillance-revelations/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416101258/https://original.antiwar.com/brett_wilkins/2021/11/09/organized-state-terrorism-palestinians-condemn-new-israeli-surveillance-revelations/|archive-date=2022-04-16|retrieved=2022-05-07}}</ref>
* In 2020, "Israel" used the spyware [[Pegasus]] against six Palestinian activists. Three of them were working with human rights groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Peoples Dispatch|title=Pegasus used to spy on six Palestinian human rights activists, finds investigation|date=2021-11-10|url=https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/11/10/pegasus-used-to-spy-on-six-palestinian-human-rights-activists-finds-investigation/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110161343/https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/11/10/pegasus-used-to-spy-on-six-palestinian-human-rights-activists-finds-investigation/|archive-date=2021-11-10|retrieved=2022-05-07}}</ref>
* In August 2022, "Israel" attacked Gaza, killing at least 43 people and injuring over 300.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Arwa Ibrahim|newspaper=[[Al Jazeera]]|title=Israel-Palestine live news: Gaza death toll reaches 29|date=2022-08-07|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/8/7/israel-palestine-latest-updates-dozens-killed-in-three-day-gaza-assault|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807082316/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/8/7/israel-palestine-latest-updates-dozens-killed-in-three-day-gaza-assault|archive-date=2022-08-07|retrieved=2022-08-07}}</ref>

[[File:Gaza in ruins.png|thumb|City in Gaza destroyed by Zionists in October 2023]]
[[File:Palestinian resistance groups.png|thumb|Diagram of ten resistance groups involved in the Al-Aqsa Flood]]

==== Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa (Third Intifada) ====
{{Main article|Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa}}

== Genocidal activity ==

=== Apartheid ===
The Israeli state uses [[apartheid]]-like [[segregation]] in order to systematically oppress the Palestinians, treating them like lesser beings and stripping them of many human rights.<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUt1OByfKc How a Zionist Defamed Me, How 'Leftist' Creators Helped Her Do It, and Why It Will Happen Again]</ref>

=== Ethnostatism ===
[[File:Zionist Nazis.png|thumb|Zionists with a sign saying "Israel über alles," a variation of the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi]] slogan "[[German Reich (1933–1945)|Deutschland]] über alles."]]
A large part of of the Palestinian genocide is the existence of Israel as a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[ethnostate]]. Due to this ethnostatism, the Palestinians living in land occupied by "Israel" are often treated as second-class citizens in their very own homes.<ref name=":0" />

== U.S. involvement ==
The USA was the first country to recognize the Zionist regime after it ocupied most of Palestine in 1948. In 1952, Zionist ruler David Ben-Gurion said that the Zionist Entity would never "explicitly contradict the wishes of the U.S. and Britain." Since 1972, the USA has vetoed 53 [[United Nations|UN]] Security Council resolutions critical of Zionism.<ref name=":4" />

== See also ==

* [[Lebensraum]]
* [[Manifest Destiny]]

== Further reading ==

* [[:Category:Palestinian resistance reading list|Palestinian resistance reading list]]
* [[:Category:Library works about Palestine|All library works about Palestine]]

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Genocide]]
[[Category:History of Palestine]]
[[Category:Zionism]]
[[Category:Pages to be protected]]