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The barbarous crimes
committed between 1967 and 1987 and 1987 against the
population of Gaza Strip
on the orders of the top Israeli political and military leaders were
similar to the war
crimes and crimes against humanity committed under the Nazi
political
and military leaders in
Occupied Europe during World War II. More than 2,000 Palestinians
of the Gaza Strip were
murdered and more than 5,000 injured and maimed. More than
10,000 Palestinians of
Gaza Strip were either imprisoned or put in detention camps and
tortured by the most
brutal and inhumane methods. More than 1,000 houses were
demolished. Collective
fines were imposed and the economy of Gaza was destroyed.
These crimes were
committed under the Israeli leadership for the purpose of breaking
the
ill and resistance to
the occupiers and for emptying the Gaza Strip of its population.
Since the beginning
of the Intifada in December 1987, Israel crimes against Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip have
increased in number and intensity.
The Period From June
11 to June 15, 1967
During this period
the curfew was lifted only four hours a day. In spite of that, terroristic
acts and mass murder of
civilians continue unabated. The occupying forces would encircle
refugee camps, villages
or city quarters, then order all males between sixteen and sixty to
proceed to an open
section in the area with their hands raised and order them to sit
under
the scorching sun all
day long. The occupying forces would order civilians to hand over
any
firearms they had in
their possession and warm them that their houses would be searched
and that houses
containing firearms would be blown up. The military forces would
select a
few houses at
random-then destroy them. Later they would pick up several hundred
men,
claiming that they were
soldiers, send them to a forced labor camp and then to the Suez
Canal Zone. All
villages. Refugee camps and city quarters were encircled starting
from
June 16. Certain areas
were besieged more than once. Khan Yunis besieged on June 17
and 21. More than two
thousand young men were taken from that town, most of them
teachers. From the
Beach Camp the IDF took more than 800 men and from the Jabalia
Camp 600 young men.
Israeli soldiers forced more than 5,000 young men out of the Strip.
Conclusion
These war crimes were
not isolated incidents erratically performed by fringe of military
units which had lost
their coherencre, but instead were conducted for predetermined
objectives. Each
massacre was planned in advance for a political rather than a
military
purpose: each massacre
was conducted under the auspices of a well-defined chain of
command descending from
a political authority to a terroristic organization or military
structure. The
individual who are the actual war criminals were never conscripts,
but
voluntary leaders
sharing Zionist ideological fervor, and regardless of political
affiliation
those individual with
proven guilty in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,
such as:Ben--Gurion,
Davan, Begin, Shamir, Rabin, Sharon, and Peres, as example, seen
to have ensured
political dominance in Israel by individuals who were guilty of
these crimes
in their past. This
would seem to indicate a criminal conspiracy to ensure that those
guilty
of war crimes against
humanity and genocide would never be brought to justice, and that
those who would oppose
the perpetration of these crimes would always be excluded from
achieving real political
power in Israel.
Encyclopedia of the
Palestinian Problem by Issa Nakhleh. Volume I.
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