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Linda Mamoun@mamoun_linda · Sep 3, 2024

A lot of people in the US don’t seem to know what Israel did to Palestinians before Oct 7. Here is a quick rundown.🧵

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This thread outlines the historical context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, detailing displacement, occupation, and alleged human rights violations from 1948 through 2021, including forced relocations, military sieges, restrictions on movement and resources, detention practices, and civilian casualties preceding the October 7 events.

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    A lot of people in the US don’t seem to know what Israel did to Palestinians before Oct 7. Here is a quick rundown.🧵

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    In 1948-1949, Israel killed more than 13,000 Palestinians, destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages, towns and cities, and forced 750,000 Palestinians out of their homes. The people in Gaza and the West Bank are the descendants of these displaced refugees.

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    In 1967, Israel forced another 300,000 Palestinians from their homes and began its military occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula.

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    Under Israeli occupation hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced into overcrowded refugee camps or enclosed villages with no ability to move freely.

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    In Gaza, Israel confined 2.3 million people to a strip of land about 25 miles long, bounded by the sea on one side and electrified walls and fences on the other. Israel’s 20-year siege of Gaza restricted access to basic imports & denied people in Gaza freedom of entry and exit.

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    In the West Bank, Israel confined Palestinians to walled-off cities and villages surrounded on all sides by heavily armed Israeli settlements with entry and exit controlled by a vast series of electronic fences and walls, checkpoints and surveillance towers.

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    Since 1967, Israel has imprisoned 40% of Palestinian men for at least a week along with more than 10,000 Palestinian women and 13,000 children.

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    Since 2001, Israel has held 100,000 Palestinians in administrative detention without charge or recourse. Over the same time period, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel logged 1,400 cases of severe torture, with only 2 criminal investigations and no convictions.

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    Israel has total control over Palestinian water access, refusing requests to build new infrastructure and limiting most Palestinians to less than the WHO standard for water access while illegal Israeli settlements are awash in water for gardens, swimming pools & large-scale farms.

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    Altogether, Israeli bombings and attacks have killed more than 60,000 civilians and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes in wars against Lebanon, Gaza and other neighboring countries in 1978, 1982, 2008, 2014 and 2021.

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    Outside of any wars or bombings, Israel has demolished 60,000 Palestinian homes as a means of collective punishment and controlling space for illegal Israeli settlements.

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    In spite of all this, most Palestinians never picked up a weapon of any kind while resisting 75 years of violence, even as Israeli soldiers have relentlessly fired live weapons at protestors, journalists and medics, killing tens of thousands of civilians. All this before Oct 7.