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Related: About this forumReality Check: Gaza is still occupied
Mehdi Hasan challenges Israel's argument that it no longer occupies the Gaza Strip.
23 Oct 2015 19:53 GMT
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Reality Check: Gaza is still occupied
Mehdi Hasan challenges Israel's argument that it no longer occupies the Gaza Strip.
23 Oct 2015 19:53 GMT | Middle East, War & Conflict, Gaza, Israel, Palestine
But Palestinians, international organisations, human rights groups and governments, including the United States, argue Gaza is still occupied.
In the Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan challenges Israel's narrative, arguing the country still controls Gaza's borders, airspace and territorial waters. He also points to the fact Israel controls the population register, meaning the government defines who is and who is not a resident of Gaza.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2015/10/reality-check-gaza-occupied-151023153703888.html
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And that Palestinians in Gaza are governed independently by Hamas (intermittently in coordination with the PA).
The occupation of the West Bank (which has many Israeli settlements) is very different from the occupation of Gaza (which has none).
It is important to appreciate the many significant differences between the two.
polly7
(20,582 posts)As stated in the article and video.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I think it is also important for people to realize the very different realities that exist in Gaza and the West Bank.
The West Bank is dotted with Israeli settlements and there are numerous checkpoints and other impediments imposed by Israel on a percentage of the Palestinians who live there.
Gaza has none of these things.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Gaza is STILL occupied!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I was adding supplemental information for anyone who is interested.
shira
(30,109 posts)Israel can't control anything Hamas does or incites their people to do.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)but some people are so obsessed with promoting an anti-Israel propaganda agenda that they don't care about reality.
Meanwhile the West Bank remains occupied as a natural defense against the kind of terrorist aggression that resulted from ending the occupation of Gaza.
shira
(30,109 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)Israel also controls (and periodically withholds) Gaza revenues.
6chars
(3,967 posts)right?