The sacrifices made by the Palestinian people over the course of a century were not few to last throughout this period, and end to this miserable situation in the Palestinian and Arab world. The Palestinian people tasted the two things because of the Jewish presence in Palestine, and the subsequent occupation of the Palestinian land and the establishment of the Zionist entity on it, and endured because of it The most severe suffering and the darkest conditions, until the Palestinian issue became the mother of regional and international issues.
The name “Palestine” and “Palestinian” became equivalent to asylum, diaspora, exile, camps, occupation, resistance, suffering and tragedy in its ugliest form, and a rich material for poets, writers and preachers, both politicians and non-politicians. Despite this, the Palestinians are still walking in the same dark tunnel, the impossible tunnel of peace, insisting on reaching its end, knowing with certainty that it is endless and that they will reap nothing but bitter after bitter.
100 years of asylum, diaspora, exiles, camps, occupation, resistance, suffering and tragedy in its ugliest form, and the Palestinians are still walking in the same dark tunnel, the impossible tunnel of peace, insisting on reaching its end, knowing with certainty that it is without end, and that they will reap nothing but bitter after bitter.
The bitter harvest
We need a quick review of the history of the sacrifices and suffering of the Palestinian people, so that it becomes clear to us and the new generations the size of the bitter harvest that the Palestinian people have reaped, and so that the Palestinian leaders, cadres and elites can be brought up again; The extent of the negligence issued by them against their people, and the extent of their need to correct the course in all directions, and the start of a new stage in which they will be as responsible as the stage they have reached on the Arab and international levels.
We can divide this bitter harvest into 5 tracks, in this article we talk about the military, economic and social, as follows:
First: the military harvest
These confrontations left hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, in successive waves of destruction, forced displacement, horrific asylum and displacement, the most prominent of these confrontations:
Second: the social and economic harvest
These military confrontations have left very severe suffering on the level of Palestinian civilians, in the occupied territories and in the diaspora countries. The report of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) submitted to its meeting in Beirut in June 2018 - a committee affiliated with the Economic and Social Council was presented. Of the United Nations - Aspects of suffering under occupation, so that there is no need to research other reports and studies needed for this place, and the following is a summary of the most prominent of what was stated in it:
- Annexation of East Jerusalem in addition to the 70 square kilometers around it.
- Settling about 640,000 settlers in 257 settlements until 2016, on an estimated land area of 540 km2 in the West Bank, excluding occupied Jerusalem.
- Annexation of territories by force
2. Land confiscation
- By the year 2017, the area of land confiscated by the Zionist entity reached 1,400 square kilometers, representing a quarter of the area of the West Bank under the pretext that it is state land.
- Since 1967, the Zionist entity has seized more than 31 square kilometers of Palestinian land for military purposes.
- Since 1967, the Zionist entity has put its hand on about 430 square kilometers under the pretext that it is absentee property and has become state land.
- Confiscating lands under the pretext of public interest to build roads, infrastructure and protect settlements.
- Confiscating more than half of Area C in the West Bank; That is, about a third of them, under the pretext that they are closed military areas.
3. Displacement
- Cancellation of residence permits
The Zionist entity canceled the residency permits of more than 250 thousand Palestinians before the coming of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, and until May 2017 it canceled the residency of about 15 thousand Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, and a law was issued allowing the Minister of the Interior of the Zionist entity to cancel permanent residency in occupied Jerusalem for those suspected of carrying out work Against the state security of the Zionist entity.
- Demolish buildings
- From 2009 to 2017, the Zionist entity destroyed 5,413 buildings and houses, and displaced about 9 thousand people who lived in them.
- Building permits are rejected for more than 94% of the applications submitted by residents of occupied Jerusalem, which exposes about 100,000 people there to displacement due to the demolition.
4- Funnel
- Excessive use of force:
- Thousands of civilians were killed and tens of thousands of buildings and homes destroyed, in addition to infrastructure.
- Arbitrary detention, in which more than 800,000 Palestinians were arrested between 1967 and 2016.
- Collective punishment, complete closure, revocation of work permits, and cuts to food, electricity and fuel.
5. Gaza blockade
- Restriction of the movement of people, travel and trade.
- Preventing dual-use items, which are civilian items that can be used for military purposes, and the list includes 64 items banned in all the occupied territories and 138 items banned in Gaza specifically.
- Restriction of movement on land and at sea.
6. Economic implications
- Half of the population of occupied Palestine is in need of humanitarian aid, or 2.5 million people, 80% of whom are residents of the Gaza Strip.
- Low per capita GDP.
- The rise in the unemployment rate in 2017 to about 28%.
- The poverty rate increased from 26% in 2011 to 29% in 2017, and in the Gaza Strip it reached 54%.
- The number of people receiving food aid increased from 80,000 in 2000 to about one million people in 2017.
- 23% of medicines and 19% of medical supplies are not available.
- More than 1.8 million people need basic assistance in water and sanitation.
- Only 10% of Gazans have access to improved drinking water.
- About one million children suffer from access to quality education in a safe environment.
- Uprooting fruit trees, destroying farmland and putting obstacles in front of farmers.
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