In 1948, a number of complicated factors led to the creation of the State of Israel on Palestinian land without the permission of Palestinian people. Palestinians were violently and forcibly removed from their own homes and land they’d owned for generations. This initial mass displacement is known as The Nakba (The Catastrophe).

The Israeli Occupation Forces (the IOF) have been controlling and terrorizing Palestinian land since The Nakba and have continued to impose wonton violence, extreme control, and progressive isolation of Palestinian people. Millions of Palestinians were ultimately forced and locked into two tiny areas of land in Palestine (the Gaza Strip & the West Bank). These areas are widely considered to be “open air prisons.”

On October 7, 2023, the IOF responded in “self-defense” to an attack by Hamas (a small and minimally resourced militant resistance force within the Gaza Strip). But “self-defense” was seemingly used as supposed justification for the ethnic cleansing that has been ongoing for over 6 months. The government of Israel used, and continues to use, the October 7th attack as justification for ethnic cleansing and the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

With billions of dollars of funding from the United States government, the Israeli Occupation Forces have leveled the Gaza Strip, murdered over 30,000 people (including thousands of children), and is shamelessly committing war crimes/human rights violations including (but not limited to) the following:

• 24/7 carpet bombing of areas in Gaza where the IOF told Palestinians were safe for evacuation and attacking the last area for the 1.4 million surviving Palestinians to flee to on the Egyptian border (Rafah).

• Deliberate targeting of hospitals, schools, and churches where thousands of innocent Palestinian people were sheltering.

• Refusal to allow humanitarian aid (including food, water, fuel, medical supplies, etc.) into Gaza causing mass starvation and rampant illness.

• Flattening (alive) zip-tied/defenseless Palestinian people with tanks, dropping white phosphorus onto civilians, and wiping out entire family lines in their non-stop bombing.

• Targeting and murdering journalists and their families in a blatant attempt to destroy the massive amount of photo/video evidence and first-hand testimony that lays out Israel’s crimes.

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