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Gaza was not destroyed. Many buildings were spared. Its people were not.
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Israel moves tanks away from Gaza border
Eleven days of fighting claimed more than 200 lives and destroyed hundreds of homes. Fatima Shbair/Getty Images
GAZA Exactly 12 hours after militants in Gaza fired the last couple of pot shots into Israel before the ceasefire went into effect, we crossed a haphazard Hamas checkpoint into Gaza. It had been thirteen years since my last visit. It was immediately clear that over the years, time and gravity had done far worse to Gaza than Israeli air strikes.
Palestinians receive the dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a clinic in Gaza on April 18, 2021. Photo by Osama Baba (c) APA Images
It would be easy to relax a moment, to think that the narrative on the struggle in Israel/Palestine is changing with the global protests (including within Israel) associated with the latest massacres in Gaza; growing support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement; and the increase in more accurate reporting language in the mainstream media (though not NPR by the way). Even the Sunday
placed the evictions in East Jerusalem in the context of the indignities and injustices of the longstanding Israeli occupation.
Palestinian civil society organisations have condemned comments made by a senior figure at the UNRWA about the 11-day Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip as “misleading and dangerous”.
Matthias Schmale, the director of operations for the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, told Israel’s Channel 12 on Sunday that the Israeli military’s strikes on Gaza appeared to be carried out with “sophistication” and “precision”.
“I have the impression there is a huge sophistication in the way the Israeli military struck over the 11 days,” Schmale said. “Yes they didn’t hit, with some exceptions, civilian targets, but the viciousness, the ferocity of those strikes were heavily felt.
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Compare the missile strikes during the recent round of fighting as seen and heard on the ground in Gaza versus the images released by the IDF Spokesman