The Impacts Of Israel's Operation Protective Attacks In Israel

According to the Human Rights Watch during July 23 and 24, 2014 in Khuza’a, a border town between the Gaza Strip and Israel, Israeli soldiers were shooting and killing innocent families while trying to force them out of their homes. At first the Israeli military gave warnings to the civilians warning them to flee their homes however most did not listen. Many had nowhere to go and stayed only in fear. Afterwards they used force shooting, and shelling the Palestinians. Killing children and families who only want to live better lives is unacceptable by all international standards. Israel’s excessive force should not be tolerated before any more lives are lost. To add on, Israel has been purposefully denying Palestinians access to basic human resources such as food and clean water. A United Nations report states that In 2010 six ships led by the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief were sailing to the Gaza Strip. They were attempting to bring aid in clean water, food, medical supplies and building supplies to the Palestinian people. However in May Israeli special forces boarded the ships killing 10 activists and detaining several hundred. They took control over the boats and sailed them to Israeli ports. This is purely an act evil against people who just wanted to help. There is no reason for a country to deny humanitarian aid to

Israel has used tactics to defend itself, and to get the international “right to exist”. Israel has used security tactics to feel safe, but these tactics are endangering the civil and human rights of the citizens of Israel. “...No country has a recognized God-given or otherwise right to exist, only responsibilities under international law and moral responsibilities…”

These wars had made angry Palestinian lost more and more land causing many terrorist attacks and suicide bombings occurred during the conflict planned by Palestinian terrorist organizations such as the Hamas. Civil Palestinians’ anger had also lead to Intifada (1987) and Second

In addition, I will examine the current state of political and human rights in Israeli occupied West Bank and analyze how they are approaching a level of apartheid. Finally, I will summarize the effects of these social tensions between Israel and Palestinians in the terms of how potential open conflict could reignite.

In 1948, Zionist forces, due to their military pre-eminence, gained control over the territory which the UN designated to the Jews in the failed partition plan. On 14 May 1948, they declared Israeli independence and established the Israeli state (Fawcett, 2005; 221). The US recognised Israel quickly as a state and soon after that the Soviet Union did the same. The Arab League, formed out of six Arab states, did not recognise Israel as a state, because they felt the land belonged to the Arabic state of Palestine, not to the Jews. Subsequently, the six Arab forces (Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria) attacked the Israeli military. The Lebanese, Syrian, Iraq and Saudi Arabian forces did not produce many offensive operations, but they managed to block the Israeli’s march. The ‘real’ fighting came from the Egyptian and Jordan forces. In the beginning, the Arabs had an advantage of weapons and air-power, whilst Israel had problems with their strategy. However, after a few months Israel was provided with war supplies from Czechoslavakia. This included both weapons for using on the mainland and aircrafts. Due to these supplies,

A series of stabbings has made the people of Israel restless and afraid. A statistic in the last paragraph of Ori Lewis’s report, “West Bank tensions rise after Palestinian stabbings in Israeli settlements,” stated that 25 people and a U.S. citizen have been killed. Over 148 Palestinians have been killed as well, a majority of them being victims of violent demonstrations (Lewis, 2016.)

On April 5th, 2018, a group of Palestinian protesters marched their way to the Gaza-Israel border, before being interrupted by a sudden eruption of gunfire and smoke. The Israeli army opened fire on thousands of civilians, killing 18 and wounding many others. Israeli troops fight and kill the inhabitants of their neighboring territory, those who are innocent civilians of their own country (Jones). Tragedies like this happen nearly every month, in dozens of regions across the globe. Armed forces brought upon residents in an effort to eradicate, disguised as control. Ranging from police brutality to ethnic cleansings and cultural genocide, the use of military force is severely abused, and results in devastation around the world. Therefore, the

In early August of 2014, Egypt was making proposals for cease-fires between Palestinian and Israeli forces. Over the summer, fighting between the two groups had increased in order to claim the Gaza strip. More than 400 children were killed and 2,800 injured in the

The Palestinians surprised the entire country by attacking on one of the holiest days of the year. In Jewish Tradition, Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. Everyone is commanded to fast and repent for their sins. Soldiers were fasting and everyone was in synagogue. The war lasted around 20 days, and afterwards the countries involved agreed to disengage, but this disengagement did not come without compromise. Israel agreed to withdraw from the Suez Canal, and Egypt agreed to limit its troops there as well. Egypt was given back the Sinai peninsula, and Egypt agreed to allow Israeli ships through the canal; The UN would mediate by using their troops to create a buffer zone. In the end, Israel gained peace with Egypt, but lost the land they had acquired less than a decade before. The biggest push toward peace that came out of this war is that “Egypt became the first Arab country to recognize Israel.”(Pro-con) The Jewish citizens were grateful that Israel had survived another war, but people were dying and war was occurring too often. No efforts have been made towards peace with the Palestinians, from 1948 to 1973, because Israel had been trying to survive one attack after another. They did not have time to negotiate. Throughout the next decade, Jordan struggled to supervise the West Bank, the Jordanian government risked being overthrown through a possible Intifada because of the absence of control over their territory.

So you may be asking yourself, “What’s so bad about this system?” Well, the Iron Dome has some flaws. It has been programmed to protect military bases and power plants as a priority. So let’s imagine that Hamas and/or Hezbollah decide to shoot thousands of rockets into Israel. The Iron Dome will have to intercept the missiles heading toward the prioritized areas

HAMAS, an Arabic acronym meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is the name of the socio-political organization currently in power over the Gaza Strip. For decades Jews & Muslims and Israelis & Palestinians, often one in the same, have fought for control over the region. Each have killed thousands of the other, destroyed infrastructures and used underhanded tactics to gain an advantage. Nations such as Japan, the European Union, the United States and (of course) Israel classify the group as terrorists, while nations such as Turkey, Russia and Switzerland do not. (King, 2010) Many factors are taken into consideration before a Nation-State denounces an organization as a “terrorist group”. A profile of HAMAS may help make clear why it is

These attacks destroyed four bridges to prevent Hezbollah soldiers from moving north. In the next few days Israel utilized attacks from land, air, and sea. Israel targeted the Hezbollah headquarters in the suburbs of Beirut, runways at the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Hezbollah bases and weapon depots, as well as more bridges, roads, and gas stations. In total Israeli Air Forces underwent 11,897 combat missions during the war. Israel artillery fired 170,000 shells and the Israeli navy fired 2,500, but very few of these hit Hezbollah fighters. Israel did manage to destroy 400 miles of roads, 73 bridges, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical facilities, fuel stations, 350 schools, two hospitals, and 15,000 homes. Beirut’s International Airport and 130,000 more homes were damaged. In total Hezbollah fired around 4,000 rockets that hit a variety of Israeli territory

This essay investigates and seeks to answer the leading question of “To what extent was the state of Israel responsible in the Sabra and Shatila Massacre of 1982?”.

How would you feel if you saw your house crumble to pieces in front of you? What would your reaction be during that millisecond where the bomb went off, burning your family to ashes? Young and old children of Palestine see these things every day. The Israeli-Arab conflict affects the children growing up in these countries, during the modern day, in a negative way because first of all, it puts high risk to their physical health, possibly disabling them for life. Secondly it crumbles their mental/emotional health. Most importantly, it gives them a slim opportunity for a proper education.

in mosques with social and welfare services, delivered through a network of clinics, schools, charities, drug treatment centers, and even sports clubs . However, since 1988, with the onset of the fist intifada, Hamas has followed an oscillatory pattern of violence and social charitable work. During the first and second intifada, Hamas inspired the greater Palestinian public to support violent means to incite change in the region. Conversely, during the Oslo peace process, when the majority of Palestinians did not condone the level of violence that was seen during the first intifada, Hamas dedicated more time towards their social roots, ultimately increasing their grassroots support. During these lulls in violence with Israel, Hamas successfully institutionalized Islamism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to Sarah Roy, by 2000, 10 to 40 percent of all social institutions in the West Bank and Gaza were Islamic . Arguably, these expanded new areas of Islamic social