Views after the ceasefire: Two years of destruction in Gaza, as told by satellite images
Satellite images show extent of destruction in Gaza after 2 years of war
An ABC News analysis of satellite images shows destruction across Gaza.
October 7, 2025,
New satellite images from Venture obtained by the BBC show the aftermath of two years of war and bombing in the Gaza Strip. Not only have large parts of Gaza been rendered uninhabitable, with buildings and infrastructure completely destroyed, but residents are also having to wade through rubble to reach homes that are not known to have survived. The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came into effect on Thursday, October 9, after the Israeli cabinet approved the first phase of a ceasefire and peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, which includes the release of Israeli hostages and the release of around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli military said yesterday that its forces had withdrawn to an agreed position inside Gaza after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Friday morning, October 10. Satellite images provided to the BBC by Venture are from various parts of the Gaza Strip on 10 October. The image below shows widespread destruction and destruction in the centre of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 10 October. The satellite image shows displaced people’s tents in the western part and Nasser Hospital in the lower right.
The images show entire towns and neighborhoods have been ravaged in Gaza, alongside key infrastructure like schools, hospitals and religious buildings.
As many as 197,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed during the war, according to estimates in a damage analysis shared with ABC News of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University’s Conflict Ecology lab.
Entire town gone: Umm al-Nasser and Al-Mughraqa
Two towns in Gaza have been completely leveled. Satellite images show there are no buildings left standing in Umm al-Nasser and Al-Mughraqa. Every single structure in these towns has been destroyed, the images show.
Umm al-Nasser is a Bedouin town in the far north of Gaza. Before the war it was home to just shy of 5,000 people. An ABC News analysis of satellite images shows it was flattened by the Israel Defense Forces between March 29 and March 31, 2025.
The Israeli army has repeatedly attacked Nasser Hospital during the war. The hospital was left without food, water, and oxygen for patients for months due to the intensity of the attacks. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry has reported that 13 patients died in the hospital due to lack of electricity and oxygen.
The most recent Israeli airstrike on the hospital on August 25, 2025, killed 20 people, including five Palestinian journalists.
The image below shows a large crowd of Gazans waiting to receive food and supplies at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s “Safe Distribution Site No. 2,” near Rafah in southern Gaza.
In response to ABC News’ inquiries about the destruction, the IDF said the activity was in accordance with international law and was done to prevent “offensive terrorist activities.”
“The village residents are scattered in several places in western Gaza City, while others have moved to the southern Gaza Strip,” a public relations manager for the town told ABC News.
Large parts of Al Mughraqa, a town of roughly 11,500 inhabitants between Gaza City and Central Gaza, was destroyed mostly between April and August 2024, according to satellite images. During that time, Israel was in control of the area, which it calls the Netzarim corridor.
Blocks flattened in Jabalia and Rafah
In several areas that Israeli forces have controlled for extended periods of time, including Rafah, northern Gaza, and Khan Younis, buildings along entire blocks of cities have been razed altogether.
In Tal Al Sultan, the neighborhood in western Rafah, satellite images indicate nearly every building on every block has been destroyed. Often the only buildings left standing are schools.
A similar scene is visible in images of Jabalia, the city in northern Gaza, where Israeli forces have conducted numerous ground operations throughout the war.
Despite the near-total ruin, the occasional tent can still be spotted among the rubble, set up by people who had returned north during the last ceasefire to find their homes destroyed, satellite images viewed by ABC News show.
Mass displacement: Al Mawasi
The change in landscape from the mass displacement of millions of people is starkly visible in satellite images.
In Al Mawasi, miles of fields have been turned into cramped camps of thousands of tents. This is the area that Israel has designated as a “humanitarian area” where people are directed to move to avoid combat zones.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in August that services in the area are not adequate: “Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced to Al Mawasi have little or no access to essential services and supplies, including food, water, electricity and tents,” he said in a UNRWA statement.
Farther north in Al Mawasi, just west of Khan Younis, the thousands of tents snake their way up the coast, taking over any inch of available space, creating a semblance of a new city among the canvas, according to satellite images viewed by ABC News.
Schools destroyed Rafah and Khan Younis
An ABC News visual analysis of satellite imagery and 200+ verified social media videos shows that 88% of Gaza’s schools are destroyed or damaged. At least 58%, or 318 school buildings, are at least partially destroyed.
In a statement to ABC News about the destruction of schools in Gaza, the IDF said, “There is no IDF policy to target schools or educators. Rather, Hamas’ widespread and well-documented strategy of exploiting schools and educational facilities for terror activities, has required IDF activity in those areas.”
The Al-Firdaws Elementary school, west of Rafah, educated 488 students before the war, according to UNICEF data. Until spring 2024, satellite images show it sheltered hundreds of displaced people.
After the IDF took control of the area in the spring of 2024, satellite images show the school was destroyed and, over this summer, the rubble was cleared to make way for the building of an aid distribution site for the controversial American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In Khan Younis, five schools in a complex, which educated a total of 6,915 students, according to UNICEF, were destroyed in August of this year, satellite images show.
In a video released by the IDF, another four schools roughly two miles north of these were mined and destroyed, also in August. In the video of the destruction of those schools, the IDF refers to them as “terrorist infrastructure,” and says their forces were operating against such infrastructure in the area of Khan Younis.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a controversial charity set up by the US and Israel to distribute aid in Gaza.
The foundation, which employs US armed security forces, was set up with the aim of replacing the UN as the main provider of aid to Gaza. The move has been widely condemned and boycotted by aid agencies and the UN itself, but Israel says an alternative to the current aid system is needed to prevent “aid theft by Hamas”, a claim Hamas denies.
Oxfam has criticised the location of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s distribution centres, telling the BBC earlier that the move amounted to “putting aid operations under military control”.
There have been several reports of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation staff shooting dead Palestinians queuing for food.
A BBC Panorama investigation in September, citing data from the ECLID, found that at least 1,300 Palestinians were killed at aid distribution points linked to the Gaza aid agency.
The UN has apparently resumed responsibility for delivering aid to Gaza since the ceasefire.
Another satellite image shows the extent of the destruction of buildings near the Al-Shati camp and Abed Square in northwestern Gaza City.
Extensive destruction of residential areas in northwest Gaza City
The coastal road of Al-Rashid is shown. This image also shows the complete destruction of the road and the building.
July 15, 2023 shows that the buildings are intact.
The image below shows the “Hamad” residential complex, which was destroyed by the war and has been transformed into a large tent camp with Palestinian refugees camped around it.
This large tent camp is located in the “Shahr Hamad” residential complex, west of the Al-Qarara area in Khan Yunis.
Tent camp for displaced people around the Hamad residential complex in Khan Yunis
During the two years of the Gaza war, heavy fighting took place in the Hamad residential complex, which was completely destroyed as a result of Israeli army operations.
May 2, 2022, shows the condition of Hamad residential complexes before the war.
The gray image below shows the Al-Sultan neighborhood in the western city of Rafah, located in the south, showing that almost all the buildings have been razed to the ground.
On May 26, 2024, the Israeli Air Force attacked the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, which set fire to a refugee camp. The attack killed between 45 and 50 Palestinians and injured more than 200. It was the deadliest incident in the Rafah offensive.
Many Palestinian refugees had previously fled to Rafah due to evacuations from other areas of the Gaza Strip.
The destruction of a large part of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of Rafah city
The following image from Google Earth shows the Tal al-Sattan neighborhood on May 2, 2022, before the war.
Tal Sultan neighborhood before the war
Moments before the explosion, artists, students and athletes were among those gathered at a bustling seaside cafe in Gaza City. Huddled around tables, customers at al-Baqa Cafeteria were scrolling on their phones, sipping hot drinks, and catching up with friends. At one point, the familiar melody of “Happy Birthday” rang out as a young child celebrated with family. In a quiet corner of the cafe overlooking the sea, a Hamas operative, dressed in civilian clothing, arrived at his table, sources told the BBC. It was then, without warning, that a bomb was dropped by Israeli forces and tore through the building, they said. At the sound of the explosion, people nearby flooded onto the streets and into al-Baqa in a desperate search for survivors. “The scene was horrific – bodies, blood, screaming everywhere,” one man told the BBC later that day. “It was total destruction,” said another. “A real massacre happened at al-Baqa Cafeteria. A real massacre that breaks hearts.”
The BBC has reviewed 29 names of people reported killed in the strike on the cafe on Monday. Twenty-six of the deaths were confirmed by multiple sources, including through interviews with family, friends and eyewitness accounts.
At least nine of those killed were women, and several were children or teenagers. They included artists, students, social activists, a female boxer, a footballer and cafe staff.
The conduct of the strike and the scale of civilian casualties have amplified questions over the proportionality of Israel’s military operations in Gaza, which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say are aimed at defeating Hamas and rescuing the hostages still being held by the group. Family members in Gaza and abroad spoke to the BBC of their shock and devastation at the killings.
“We were talking with each other two days ago. We were sending reels to each other. I can’t believe it,” said a young Palestinian man living in the US whose 21-year-old “bestie” Muna Juda and another close friend, Raghad Alaa Abu Sultan, were both killed in the strike.
The numbers of deaths analysed by the BBC were broadly consistent with figures given by the Hamas-run Civil Defence Agency, a senior local medic and the Palestinian Red Crescent in the days after the strike.
Staff at Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies, said its toll as of Thursday had reached 40 deaths, including people who had succumbed to their injuries, and unidentified bodies.
An official at the hospital said some of the bodies had been “blown to pieces”, and that 72 injured patients were brought there – many having sustained severe burns and significant injuries that required surgery. He said many were students.
In a statement after the strike, the IDF said it had been targeting “terrorists” and that steps were taken to “mitigate the risk of harming civilians using aerial surveillance”.
“The IDF will continue to operate against the Hamas terrorist organization in order to remove any threat posed to Israeli civilians,” it added, before saying the “incident” was “under review”.
The IDF did not directly respond to multiple BBC questions about the target of the strike, or whether it considered the number of civilian casualties to be proportionate.
Al-Baqa Cafeteria was well-known across the Gaza Strip, considered by many to be among the territory’s most scenic and vibrant meeting spots.
Split over two floors and divided into men’s and mixed family sections, it had views out to the Mediterranean Sea and television screens where people could watch football matches. It was a place to gather for coffee, tea and shisha with friends, and was a particular favourite with journalists.
Al-Baqa had remained popular even during the war, especially because of its unusually stable internet connection. The cafe, which had until now survived largely unscathed, also served up a reminder of the life that existed before the bombardments.
A cafe manager told the BBC that there was a strict entry policy. “It was known to our customers that if any person looked like a target, then they were not let inside the cafeteria – this was for our safety and the safety of the people there,” he said.
On the day of the strike, the port area of Gaza City where the cafe is located was not under Israeli evacuation orders, and families of those killed on Monday say they had felt as safe as is possible when heading there.
Staff told the BBC that the strike in the early afternoon – between the Muslim prayers of Zuhr and Asr – was outside of the cafe’s busiest hours.
The strike hit a section of the men’s area where staff said few people were at the time.
BBC Verify showed several experts photos of the crater left in the wake of the explosion and the remaining munition fragments. Most said that they believed it was caused by a bomb, rather than a missile, with a range of size estimates given, at a maximum of 500lb (230kg).
The IDF told the BBC it would not comment on the type of munition used.
A journalist who was in the area at the time of the strike and spoke to eyewitnesses immediately afterwards told the BBC the munition that hit the cafe “was launched from a warplane – not from a drone that would usually target one or two people… It looked like they were very keen on getting their target”. His account was consistent with others we spoke to.
An image by artist Amina Omar Al-Salmi, who was killed in the strike, depicts a woman with her eyes closed and covered in blood
Artist Amina Omar Al-Salmi, better known as Frans, was also at the cafe with a well-known photographer friend.
Since the 35-year-old’s death, one of her pieces depicting a dead woman with her eyes closed and covered in blood, has been shared widely online alongside an image of her after her death, with people noting the striking similarities.
Her sister, now living in Sweden, told the BBC that the last time they spoke, Frans had said that she was sure “something good was going to happen”.
“She was happy and said: ‘We’ll meet soon. You’ll see me at your place.'”
The Not-So-Distant Past of Western Capitalism
An overview of the history of the last few decades of Western capitalism:
Europe and the Sense of Responsibility
with the outbreak of the war between Hamas and Israel and its continuation, the world is stunned by the deep sense of responsibility of the Europeans towards Israel. A sense of responsibility and sympathy towards the victims of crimes is a good human feeling and should be encouraged and appreciated. This feeling, however, cannot be limited to one issue alone. For this reason, I will list additional items that are approximately of equal importance and quantity, so that we can assess the extent to which this sense of responsibility has been shown towards them and how they have been associated with them.
- Colonialism in Africa began in the 15th century, but between 1881 and 1914 it was as heinous as ever. Because in the Berlin Conference of February 25, 1885, which was convened at the invitation of Bismarck, the countries of Africa were divided and occupied among 13 European countries and were called colonial areas. Africa’s natural resources were plundered. It was only in 2010, after 125 years of looting, genocide, discrimination, unbridled violence, murder and humiliation, that this policy and its practical consequences against the people of Africa were called “crimes against humanity” and the possibility of reparations was raised, albeit under the guise of neo-colonial methods or modern colonial.
- The slave trade was carried out by European commercial capitals (Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark) from Africa to the Americas. About 12 million free Africans were kidnapped and sold as commodities and made long journeys on ships carrying animals and livestock. Six million of them died during the voyage due to various reasons such as disease, hunger, thirst, and wars between ships, but in fact they were killed and their bodies were thrown into the sea to be consumed by sea creatures, leaving no trace of them. No Picture of them that can be hung on Wall and not a list of their names. This number was close to 25% of the population of the areas where they lived. Do the people of Europe and the United States feel responsible for these 12 and 6 million? Have memorials been built for them in the mentioned countries? Do radio and television talk about them all the time? Do school students get enough information about this, do presidents speak to them at different ceremonies and remind them of their responsibility and that of future generations? Does the phrase “we don’t forgive, we don’t forget” apply to them as well?
• Coup against Patrice Lumumba, 35, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after independence, who did not want to operate under the influence of the colonial powers. His government lasted only ten weeks, from June 24, 1960, to September 5, 1960, as the internal agents of Belgian colonialism stole him and his two loyal deputies, killing him and his two loyal deputies after horrific torture, dismembering them and throwing them in acid, and burning the rest until they were completely wiped out. The Belgian government apologized for it in 2002!! As we see it, the event did not take place in the Middle Ages, but in the twentieth century. Is there a statue of him in Belgium or another formerly colonialist country when the statue of the slave trader was recently pulled down by the protesting people (Britain)?
• The genocide of the two Tribes “Nama and Herero” in Namibia by the German colonial army in 1904, also in the 20th century. The reason for the massacre was their struggle and war against occupation and colonialism. They were driven into the desert and besieged, where a large number died of thirst and hunger, and the rest were taken to camps, where they died under harsh conditions.
Overall were the majority of these two tribes, were massacred about 100,000. In 2015, after 110 years, Germany agreed to negotiate with the government to accept genocide and apologized, and then with one Billion dollar the issue was officially ended. No memorial was built. It was not raised as an urgent issue in schools, nor was it addressed once a year on radio and television. Why? Are the human values of the people of Africa less than others? Weren’t they worth talking about because they were of colour? Were they not the chosen tribes?
• Apartheid in South Africa by white immigrants.
First, the Nederland arrived with the Dutch East India Company, which formed a white but dominant minority. After the bankruptcy of the Dutch company, it was replaced by Britain. In1806 Slavery was abolished in England, but due to the ongoing struggles in the colonies, it was not abolished there until 27 years later. More than 80% of the population, who were black, did not have the right to vote, even if they did, it would not help them, because this right only means that you are free every few years vote for people or parties that you do not know them and who do not know you and your problems and do not even want to know them, because they support the interests of the ruling class not yours.
You are only a vote for them, nothing more. You are needed to legitimize them, that’s why you will be loved by them during the elections. The white government, which came to power in 1948, drafted and passed segregation laws. With this Laws wealth went to the 7.8% white minority, and labour and exploitation to blacks, people of colour, and Indians. And it also intensified the class divide and at the same time the struggle for emancipation. Aside from the issue of slavery, a significant factor for the colonial countries was the existence of rich diamond, gold, mines, and resources of uranium, oil, and cotton, which replaced slavery.
In 1994, blacks gained the right to vote, while they needed a redistribution of wealth, blessings and chances, and cutting off the hands of the capitalists from the national wealth to make it possible for everyone to live in prosperity. But by forgiving the criminals and their agents and to imprison the fighters who fought against the apartheid government as Terrorist, the poverty of the working masses increased, and only black capitalists and their intellectuals were allowed to join the circle of power. This shows that capitalism is not dependent on colour and race, but rather on relations in which a majority, regardless of colour and race, is exploited and a minority is fattened.
• Colonialism in India: 1800-1947 first by the East India Company which was dissolved by the 1857 rebellion and then the occupation of Indian territory by the Raj. In World War II, Britain forcibly sent 2 million Indians to war and killed many more. Discrimination, humiliation, and plundering of resources were prevalent and caused the struggle for to release from colonialism to continue until independence in 1950. But the participation of India in the countries of commonwealth shows that independence was not the end of colonialism, but it became a different form of it.
Colonialism did not only include the plundering of resources but also created discord and enmity between the different ethnic groups living in the region with the policy of divide and rule. The impact of this policy can be seen in the Indian subcontinent and its transformation into Kashmir, India, and Pakistan and their continuous conflicts. The plundering of India’s resources was one of the important factors that provided for the growth of capitalism in England.
Is there a sense of responsibility among Europeans for this plunder, humiliation, discrimination, and occupation of the land? To date, British officials have refrained from apologizing. The former queen called it “unfortunate and tragic” but said it was impossible to rewrite history. Of course, if history is written by the rulers, and Prime Minister Cameron called what happened “shameful”, he did not apologize.
• Iran and British colonialism: Iran was never officially converted into a colony, but colonial policies operated in it. Britain signed a treaty with Iran, according to which no European country was allowed to pass through Iran to go to India. In 1810, by concluding commercial agreements, they obtained many concessions that were to the detriment of Iran. The Reuter concession in 1872 laid the railway, extracting all the mines including oil, coal, lead, etc. in it.
In 1901, Britain signed the contract for the extraction of Iranian oil and established its dominance over it, according to which only 16% of the oil profits were given to Iran and the remaining 84% was the share of Britain, which continued until the passage of the Oil Nationalization Law on March 20, 1931, but the sale of oil was stopped because European countries in support of Britain boycotted the purchase of Iranian oil, which lasted for four years. Similarly, in World War II, although Iran declared neutrality in the war on September 1, 1939, Iran was invaded and occupied and attacked by the Allied forces by air, land and sea from the north, east, south and west. The agricultural products and supplies of the Iranian people were seized by the occupying forces, and famine occurred. People were suffering from food shortages, and many died of hunger and disease. The press was censored by the occupiers, and the people were harassed.
In the First World War, due to the occupation of Iran, 25% of the Iranian population died of hunger and typhus caused by the soldiers of the occupying forces. At the end of the war, Iran was neither compensated nor the occupation was condemned, just like after World War II. This suffering and mortality did not enter into the sense of responsibility of the Europeans at all. Was it taught to students in history books?
Sixty years after the Indonesian Holocaust; the massacre of communists and workers that the capitalist world turned a blind eye to.
Sixty years have passed since one of the most horrific tragedies of the 20th century: the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia between 1965 and 1968. A tragedy that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million people, left millions of families homeless and grieving, and left a deep wound in the body of the labour and socialist movement in Southeast Asia.
This massacre, called the “forgotten Holocaust” by many researchers, was not a sudden, domestic incident, but part of a global counter-revolutionary plan, one that was carried out with the direct support of the United States and Britain, and in cooperation with the Indonesian military under the command of General Suharto.
The Roots of Disaster: From the Indonesian Communist Party to the Suharto Coup
By the early 1960s, the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had become the largest communist party outside the socialist bloc, with more than three million members and millions of supporters among workers and peasants. This situation terrified both Western governments and the Indonesian bourgeoisie.
The suspicious incident of September 30, 1965, known as the “failed coup,” gave General Suharto a pretext to seize power with the support of Washington and London. A wave of organized violence began: lists of thousands of party members and supporters were handed over to the Indonesian army by the US embassy, and paramilitary forces, with the logistical and financial support of Western intelligence agencies, carried out the massacres. The massacres targeted communists, workers, intellectuals, women activists, and even ethnic minorities, including ethnic Chinese. Women were raped on a massive scale, and villages were destroyed. Thousands of bodies were dumped in rivers to spread public terror.
Despite the horrific scale of the disaster, the Indonesian government never accepted responsibility for the crime. Suharto built the foundations of his 32-year dictatorship on the massacre. Even after his resignation in 1998, no serious process of truth-seeking and national reconciliation was initiated. In 2015, the International People’s Court in The Hague declared the 1965–68 atrocities a “crime against humanity” under the 1948 Genocide Convention. But the ruling had no consequences for the Indonesian authorities or their foreign backers, as it lacked enforcement guarantees.
The West’s Role: A “Light in Asia” for Imperialism
Subsequent documents and testimonies revealed that the United States and Britain were directly involved in planning and executing the massacre. Washington referred to the event as “a shining light in Asia.” Western oil, automotive, and industrial giants, including Standard Oil, General Motors, BP, and Unilever, quickly rushed to Indonesia to exploit the country’s natural resources and markets.
For the imperialist powers, the destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party was not a tragedy but a victory, one that consolidated the dominance of global capitalism in the region.
A Legacy of Silence and Forgetfulness
Now, sixty years after the disaster, the victims are still waiting for justice. No compensation has been paid to the families, the mass graves remain unmarked, and the climate of repression and historical distortion in Indonesia continues. Only small civic groups and a few local and international researchers are trying to prevent the crime from being forgotten by uncovering documents and holding memorial services.
The election of Prabowo Subianto, a former general with a dubious record of human rights abuses, to the presidency in 2024 has once again raised concerns about the return of the military and puppets of the Suharto regime to power.
Leftist and justice-seeking movements around the world insist that remembering this disaster is not just for history, but part of today’s struggle against imperialism, capitalism, and political oppression.
What happened in Indonesia showed how a system of global domination can drown a powerful labour and socialist movement in blood. But the memory of the victims lives on and continues in the struggles of future generations for freedom and justice. Sixty years after that horrific crime, the world is still waiting for accountability and justice. The Indonesian massacre is not just a historical event; it is a warning for today, that silence in the face of the crimes of the dominant powers is itself the continuation of the same bloody cycle.
•The Vietnam War is so well known first by France and then by the United States that it is needless to say, but I have not seen a memorial being taken for its victims. I have not heard of people’s sense of responsibility. Are French, American, and European students fully informed about it to feel responsible.
• The War between NATO or a combination of the United States and the European Union with Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, which turned the above three countries into ruins. It killed hundreds of thousands of people. It led to the growth of armed groups and radical Islamism in the region.
In the end, the defeated NATO left the region and placed the enormous burden of the war on the shoulders of the workers of their countries. While millions of people were always demonstrating in the streets against the war. Do the people have the right to make decisions or to oppose a decision, or is it only the right of the government and the parliament?
This disenfranchisement of the people is the true expression of bourgeois democracy. Did they properly inform the masses of the people about the events? Is there a sense of responsibility for all this destruction, humiliation, and killing, or are the people of the Middle East not worthy of a sense of responsibility and accountability?
• After all, it is the behaviour of European emigrants in entering lands that were unknown to them and thought they had discovered, while those people had a rich history. They took over native land, Indigenous people were massacred in the land that was later called United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
They drove the rest of native people to a corner of their land and isolated them. They destroyed them with drugs and alcohol, separated their children and placed them in religious missions in order to destroy their language and culture and receive a Christian education. Abuse, rape, and pressure were part of this training.
I will summarize the matter by looking at the Middle East and the issue of the establishment of Israel, while there are many other things to say that will be limited to this brief. I have nothing to do with the history of the existence or establishment of the state of Israel or Palestine from a historical point of view. I will only show the sense of human responsibility in Europe after the Second World War. It should be noted that before World War II, there were no borders in the Arab Middle East, and people of different religions lived, interacted, and traded with each other in this area.
After World War II, England ended the colonialism of Palestine, on14 May 1948, and on this same day, Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the State of Israel. At the end of the 19th century, the immigration of European Jews to Palestine began. The percentage of the Jewish population increased from 5% in 1882 to 30% in 1945 and 33% in 1948. During the war, the United States supported the Zionist organizations and the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The question of Palestine was discussed at the United Nations for two weeks until May 15, 1947. Of the eleven people who were responsible for making decisions, 7 voted for the division of Palestine into two states, Jews and Palestine, and the remaining 4 voted for the establishment of an Arab-Jewish state and state. As a result, the United Nations, while ending the British Mandate, voted to divide Palestine into two Arab and Jewish states and a free Jerusalem with Resolution181.
The six Arab member states of the United Nations opposed this decision, calling the partition of Palestine a declaration of war, and determined to form the “Arab Liberation Army” and advanced in British Palestine from various directions. In March 1948, Israel announced Operation Dalit to protect the safety of the Jews, and on April 9 it carried out a massacre in the Arab village of Deir Yasin, which left 250 men, women and children dead.
Such operations were carried out many times, for example, on October 25, 1956, a sudden curfew and the order to shoot those who did not comply with it were announced. The incident in the Arab village of “Kafir Qasim” near the Jordanian border, killed 48 people who had no knowledge of the incident.
The first war between the Arabs and Israel ended in Israel’s favour in January 1949 with financial aid and the delivery of necessary weapons by the United States. By October 1948, according to the United Nations, 650,000 Palestinians had been expelled from their land, homes and lives, and after the ceasefire, only a small number were allowed to return to their homes and formed a group of Palestinian refugees in the camps. And now, according to the Palestinian central bureau of statistics, more than 6 million Palestinian refugees are living in 58 camps in Arab countries, hoping for the day when they will return to their homeland. In addition, 761,000 people live in other countries.
Second Arab Israeli War (Six-Day War of July 5-10, 1967): The armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan took part in this war, as well as Iraq and Lebanon. Israel had the full support of the United States and Europe. Issues other than the Palestinian issue had a significant impact on the war, including the water crisis in Israel, the Suez Canal issue, the closure of the entry of Iranian oil to the port of Eilat in southern Israel through the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba, and the ownership of the Golan Heights and the Sinai Desert.
During this war, Israel, with the help of its spies in Egypt before the active conflict, was able to bomb and destroy more than 33 Egyptian warplanes, and subsequently sent troops to occupy the Sinai Peninsula, and by the end of these six days, it had succeeded in capturing the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
Battle of Karama: Karama was the headquarters of the Al-Fatah Organization and its leadership. On March 21, 1968, the Israeli army entered Jordanian territory from the ground and weather to crush the camp and the headquarters of Al-Fatah in Karama. In this war, which lasted for two days, during which the Palestinian forces and the Jordanian army fought together against Israel and forced Israel to retreat, all the houses of the Palestinian refugees were razed to the ground by the Israeli army. After this incident, the Palestinians were disarmed by the Jordanian government. The pressure on the refugees was not only exerted by Israel, but also by the Arab countries.
The Arab states, in turn, pressured, suppressed, or expelled them, as an example of Black September is.
Black September: The civil war between Fatah and the Lebanese army, during which the Jordanian government declared martial law and ordered the expulsion of all Fatah members in Jordan, which lasted only two days and ended in a ceasefire and Arafat’s agreement to expulsion, left between 3000 and 3400 dead, and Palestinian refugees from Fatah were forcibly expelled to Syria and residing in Syrian camps. But the leadership of Al-Fatah went to Lebanon.
This was the appearance of the matter and its human side, but does the support of the United States and other countries for Israel really stem from their love for the people who were victims of the racist and anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany? Does ignoring the project of building an atomic bomb and Israel’s lack of accountability and participation in the Atomic Energy Organization come from this love? Does turning a blind eye to the settlements and repeated occupations, billions of dollars in annual military financial aid, and the current 14 billion for Israel in exchange for 100 million for humanitarian aid to Palestine come from this divine love?
The issue of oil and gas (huge oil conglomerates), the issue of the strategic waterway (the Persian Gulf, the Suez Canal), the issue of natural resources, the issue of a state of no war and no peace and the sale of arms (the boom of the military and arms industries), the issue of oil dollars and their return to their origin, the joint investment of American capitalists in Israel’s military, aerospace and technology industries, Israel’s role in the balance of power in the Middle East during the Cold War, cooperation Israel is one of the most important with the colonial countries in Africa. Aside from the United States, German financial and military aid And European countries are also impressive to Israel. Does Germany give submarines to any other country in order to feel responsible for the crime? Does the submarine play a role in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians? All these donations come not from the love of supporting the victims, which of course only a few of them remain, but from the benefits of their own capital, the sale of weapons and equipment, even though Israel is their illegitimate child and does whatever it wants, even if it is to the detriment of these kinder nannies than the mother.
For these reasons, the burden of responsibility of the masses of the European people and the future generations is constantly increasing, due to ignorance, subjugation to the false propaganda of the official media, and the fear of seeing the truth and expressing it in this injustice, occupation of the land and displacement, in the endless destruction and killing of the Palestinians, not the governments and capitalists who act knowingly.
Capitalism, Democracy, Genocide, Another Most Horrifying Human Disaster
All evidence is sounding the alarm that global capitalism and the democracy camp are preparing to implement another of their most terrifying, criminal, and horrifying anti-human scenarios. The Trump administration, in support of the ruling beast of Israel, with the sympathy, support of partner countries, a consensus mixed with the ifs and buts of all the governments of the world, the entire global capitalist class, is determined to turn more than two million cursed, burned, destroyed, bombed, and surviving people from the crematoriums of Israel by force, under more intense bombing, into refugees in the deserts, burning wastelands, and lacking any basic means of livelihood in other countries!! The Trump administration, global capitalism, and the democracy camp are dressing up this colossal crime when billions of workers around the world, despite their anger and dissatisfaction with the two-year genocide by Israel and the United States in Gaza, have practically and truly buried themselves in a catastrophic graveyard silence. Nowhere in the world have they taken any step to exercise their class-transformative power against these holocausts. Nowhere have they stopped the wheel of production and labour of the wage slavery system from turning for even an hour and have they not demonstrated effective power against these atrocities, genocides, and holocausts. In the heart of this graveyard silence, Trump and global capitalism allow themselves to commit any barbarity, cruelty, and genocide in any dimension. What is happening before our eyes is not just the natural and violent rebellion, the more horrific the cruelty of the capitalist system and the governments of Israel, America, Europe, and their partners. The entire graveyard silence of the working masses of the world is also shameful and humiliating.