The whole world is currently carefully watching the developments that are taking place in the current Israel’s 21 days military incursions into Gaza Strip.
Background:
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict stems from competing Jewish and Arab national aspirations for the region Israel / Palestine respectively.
Before World War II, the country was called as Palestine, ruled over by Britain and where both the Arabs and Jews lived together. After World War II, United Nations approved the partition of Palestine into two parts: one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish leadership accepted the plan and declared independent Israel in 1948. But the Arabs rejected the plan and a civil war broke out.
In 1988, Independent State of Palestine was established which includes West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, living in peace with Israel.
Current Situation:
On December 27th 2008, Israel cities came under rocket fire attacks from Gaza killing a few Israel soldiers and civilians. These rocket attacks broke the earlier ceasefire between Israel & Gaza. In retaliation, Israel warplanes carried out air strikes on Gaza killing hundreds of Palestinians. Israel army then invaded Gaza with tanks to strip Palestinians of their ammunition & rockets.
My thoughts:
I think that the current situation has inflicted damages on both the sides. I wonder how the innocent people who are involved must be living in such dire conditions especially in Gaza. Israeli air strikes have destroyed a whole food storage facility cutting off the food supply for the Palestinian people. The unending pain of Gaza civilians is harrowing. They must be fighting for their lives every day not knowing which day they might be killed. I feel sorry for the relatives of the dead people as they must be going through the hardest part of their life. I cannot imagine their condition if I were in their shoes. I do not know what both the countries get by attacking on each other. Their own people are dying for no reason. They should be worrying about their people instead of fighting with each other. As the saying goes: An Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Hence I think Israel and Palestine should come to negotiating tables and broker peace. Only Peaceful co-existence of Arabs and Jews will bring prosperity to both of them. I sincerely hope that this war ends soon bringing relief to the people of both sides.
Credits:
1. Wikipedia
2. YouTube
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