A-Infos (en) Greece, Liberta Salonica: Demonstration for the 77th anniversary of the Nakba | Thursday 15/5, 19:00, Venizelos Statue (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

May 15 marks 77 years since the Day of Catastrophe (Nakba) when over 
750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their ancestral lands after the 
war between the newly established state of Israel and 5 Arab states. The 
6-Day War of 1967 pitted 3 Arab states against Israel. Israel defeated 
and conquered both the West Bank (from Jordan) and Gaza (from Egypt). 
After the war, Israel forbade Palestinians from returning to their homes 
and forced them to live exclusively in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank 
(or to take refuge as refugees).

In 1971, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, led by Yasser 
Arafat) accepted (was forced to) the partition of the Palestinian 
territory into Israel and Palestine (which would now consist only of the 
West Bank and Gaza). In 1987, after the death of 4 citizens, the first 
Intifada began, which ended with the Oslo Accords. With these 
agreements, the minimal "Palestine" that had remained was further 
reduced and the West Bank was divided into 3 zones, one of which was 
controlled by the Palestinians, the other by Israel, and the third 
jointly. At the same time, Jewish settlements were increasingly 
expanding in Palestinian territory. In 2000, the second Intifada began, 
leading to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. Since 2007, Hamas has been in 
power in Gaza. Since 2007, Israel has been bombing Gaza continuously, 
with major operations in 2008-2009, 2012, 2014 and 2021.

On 7/10/2023, Hamas launched an attack on the occupied Israeli 
territories. During the attack, approximately 1,300 Israelis were killed 
(it remains unknown how many were soldiers and how many were civilians). 
Targeting civilians is a practice that is not and will never be 
acceptable to the world of the movement that speaks of life and peace. 
Nevertheless, two points must be noted: 1) a huge range of "atrocities" 
"committed by Hamas" were nothing more than fake news (as an example we 
mention the "40 dead decapitated babies" and the "raped and murdered 
young woman from Germany" who was found alive in a hospital in the Gaza 
Strip), 2) we could not help but comment that the same "international 
public opinion" that declared itself shocked by the deaths of civilians 
in Israel has never felt the same horror at the executions, the arrests 
without charges, the bombings of civilians, the white phosphorus bombs 
and the daily violations of every concept of international legality and 
humanity by the state of Israel for 70 years.

Since 7/10/2023, Israel, claiming to be "defending itself", has launched 
an unprecedented, even for itself, operation of ethnic cleansing of the 
Palestinian people. With hundreds of bombings (indicatively, we mention 
that in just 5 days it dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip - as many 
as, to understand the proportion, the US dropped in Afghanistan in a 
year, while Israel bombed the Gaza Strip with over 100,000 tons of 
explosives in an area that does not exceed 360 square kilometers, a 
force equivalent to more than 6 nuclear bombs). The atrocities in which 
Israel engages are endless. Before the -short- ceasefire - it demanded 
that 1.1 million civilians evacuate Northern Gaza in 24 hours, gave 
ultimatums to hospitals to evacuate, repeatedly bombed convoys of 
civilians evacuating Gaza from the supposed "safe passage", obstructed 
the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, used white phosphorus bombs 
extensively, bombed the Gaza hospital during which it murdered 500-1000 
civilians in an instant, threw an unknown number of people into mass 
graves found under the Nasser medical complex in Khan Yunis after the 
withdrawal of the occupying Israeli troops, tortured civilians - a 
practice that, along with illegal imprisonment without even being 
addressed to you, without a lawyer are everyday practice of the Israeli 
state, and it murdered members of humanitarian organizations, doctors 
and journalists.

When the war was restarted by Israel after a brief ceasefire that itself 
broke, the condition facing the Palestinians was already one of open and 
undisguised genocide. Israel began bombing an already razed Gaza, while 
the civilians had already returned. There were already no buildings to 
bomb, and Israel turned Gaza into a "kill box" where the sky rains bombs 
on the heads of civilians living in tents. Demonstration for the 77th 
anniversary of the Nakba | Thursday 15/5, 19:00, Venizelos Statue

May 15 marks 77 years since the Day of Catastrophe (Nakba) when over 
750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their ancestral lands after the 
war between the newly established state of Israel and 5 Arab states. The 
6-Day War of 1967 pitted 3 Arab states against Israel. Israel defeated 
and conquered both the West Bank (from Jordan) and Gaza (from Egypt). 
After the war, Israel forbade Palestinians from returning to their homes 
and forced them to live exclusively in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank 
(or to take refuge as refugees).

In 1971, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, led by Yasser 
Arafat) accepted (was forced to) the partition of the Palestinian 
territory into Israel and Palestine (which would now consist only of the 
West Bank and Gaza). In 1987, after the death of 4 citizens, the first 
Intifada began, which ended with the Oslo Accords. With these 
agreements, the minimal "Palestine" that had remained was further 
reduced and the West Bank was divided into 3 zones, one of which was 
controlled by the Palestinians, the other by Israel, and the third 
jointly. At the same time, Jewish settlements were increasingly 
expanding in Palestinian territory. In 2000, the second Intifada began, 
leading to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. Since 2007, Hamas has been in 
power in Gaza. Since 2007, Israel has been bombing Gaza continuously, 
with major operations in 2008-2009, 2012, 2014 and 2021.

On 7/10/2023, Hamas launched an attack on the occupied Israeli 
territories. During the attack, approximately 1,300 Israelis were killed 
(it remains unknown how many were soldiers and how many were civilians). 
Targeting civilians is a practice that is not and will never be 
acceptable to the world of the movement that speaks of life and peace. 
Nevertheless, two points must be noted: 1) a huge range of "atrocities" 
"committed by Hamas" were nothing more than fake news (as an example we 
mention the "40 dead decapitated babies" and the "raped and murdered 
young woman from Germany" who was found alive in a hospital in the Gaza 
Strip), 2) we could not help but comment that the same "international 
public opinion" that declared itself shocked by the deaths of civilians 
in Israel has never felt the same horror at the executions, the arrests 
without charges, the bombings of civilians, the white phosphorus bombs 
and the daily violations of every concept of international legality and 
humanity by the state of Israel for 70 years.

Since 7/10/2023, Israel, claiming to be "defending itself", has launched 
an unprecedented, even for itself, operation of ethnic cleansing of the 
Palestinian people. With hundreds of bombings (indicatively, we mention 
that in just 5 days it dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip - as many 
as, to understand the proportion, the US dropped in Afghanistan in a 
year, while Israel bombed the Gaza Strip with over 100,000 tons of 
explosives in an area that does not exceed 360 square kilometers, a 
force equivalent to more than 6 nuclear bombs). The atrocities in which 
Israel engages are endless. Before the -short- ceasefire - it demanded 
that 1.1 million civilians evacuate Northern Gaza in 24 hours, gave 
ultimatums to hospitals to evacuate, repeatedly bombed convoys of 
civilians evacuating Gaza from the supposed "safe passage", obstructed 
the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, used white phosphorus bombs 
extensively, bombed the Gaza hospital during which it murdered 500-1000 
civilians in an instant, threw an unknown number of people into mass 
graves found under the Nasser medical complex in Khan Yunis after the 
withdrawal of the occupying Israeli troops, tortured civilians - a 
practice that, along with illegal imprisonment without even being 
addressed to you, without a lawyer are everyday practice of the Israeli 
state, and it murdered members of humanitarian organizations, doctors 
and journalists.

When the war was restarted by Israel after a brief ceasefire that itself 
broke, the condition facing the Palestinians was already one of open and 
undisguised genocide. Israel began bombing an already razed Gaza, while 
the civilians had already returned. There were already no buildings to 
bomb, and Israel turned Gaza into a "kill box" where the sky rains bombs 
on the heads of civilians living in tents.

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