Palestinian genocide

The Nakba
File:Zionist massacre.jpg Corpes of Palestinians massacred by Zionists
Date 2 November 1917 - present Location State of Palestine Result Ongoing Expulsion of many Palestinians from the State of Palestine Continued oppression of Palestinians Territorial changes Occupation of most of the Palestinian territory by the State of Israel
Groups involved
1917-1948 Zionist organizations United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Supported by: Russian Empire (until 1917) French Republic United States of America 1948-present State of Israel Supported by: United States of America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland European Union French Republic	1917-1948 Sublime Ottoman State (until 1918) Ottoman Syria Palestinian organizations Supported by: Arab Kingdom of Syria (1919-1920) 1948-present State of Palestine West Bank Gaza Strip Syrian Arab Republic (from 1967) Golan Heights Republic of Lebanon (from 1978)
Units involved
British Armed Forces (until 1948) Jewish National Council (1920-1948) Haganah (1920-1948) Irgun (1931-1948) National Military Organization in Israel (1940-1948) Mahal volunteers (1947-1949) Israel Defense Forces (1948-present)	Palestinian resistance groups Hamas League of Arab States Hezbollah

The Palestinian genocide, also known as the Nakba and wrongly called the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the West, is the ongoing systematic genocide and oppression of the Palestinians by the State of Israel. It is defined by the settler colonial project of the Israeli state known as Zionism and has pushed for the cultural destruction of the Palestinian people. The genocide has led to the rise of Palestinian resistance groups such as Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Resistance to the genocide has led to Israel enacting a siege on the Gaza Strip with the goal of eliminating the Palestinian resistance from Hamas.

History

First World War

See main article: First World War

During the First World War, two of the main combatants on the Middle Eastern front were the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK), alongside its vast British Empire, and the Sublime Ottoman State. 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. Under Ottoman rule, both Muslim Palestinians and the Jewish people recieved a level of relative equality as the Islamic Ottomans were open to sheltering Jewish communities that faced oppression by European powers, especially the French Republic.

The Ottomans entered the First World War on 2 November 1914 when the Russian Empire declared war on them due to their naval activities and their close ties to the German Empire, Russia's war-time enemy. Almost immediately upon Ottoman entry into the war, the British took advantage of their 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. 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. As a result, Zionists began stepping up their activities in Palestine and officially launched their settler colonial project.

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.

Ethnostatism

A large part of of the Palestinian genocide is the existence of Israel as a 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.