Palestinians on Wednesday marked the 57th anniversary of the June 1967 conflict with Israel amid the continued onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
The 1967 Six-Day War, often called the Naksa or Setback, additionally marked the displacement of tens of hundreds of Palestinians from their homelands, ensuing within the defeat of the Arab armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
As a results of the conflict, Israel took management of the Palestinian-populated West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.
While the primary displacement of Palestinians had taken place in May 1948 quickly after the institution of the Jewish state, the second large-scale displacement occurred in 1967.
GENOCIDAL WAR
Mohammad Bayan Abdel-Wahhab, 80, who lived by the 1967 conflict stated “it can’t be compared to the ongoing war.”
“What we are living today is a genocide, not a war,” he stated, including that what the Palestinian individuals in Gaza are experiencing was by no means seen earlier than.
77-year-old Mohammad Radwan informed Anadolu that the continued Israeli conflict is the fiercest conflict ever skilled by the Palestinian individuals.
“We lived in a state of expulsion and displacement in the past, but what we experience today was never seen before,” Radwan added.
ETHNIC CLEANSING
Maha Salameh, 59, who sits in her tent in Deir al-Balah, a metropolis in central Gaza, stated the similarity between the present conflict and the Naksa conflict is the “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
She added that Israel throughout its wars intentionally sought to make demographic modifications within the occupied Palestinian territories.
Several Israeli officers, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shared plans to “voluntarily expel” Palestinians from Gaza to different nations.
KILLINGS AND DESTRUCTION
Fathi Abu Marzouq, 63, stated the continued Israeli conflict in Gaza is “a continuation to the approach of genocidal war against the Palestinian people which started in 1948.”
“Israel seeks to obliterate the Palestinian cause, and steal the land by killing Palestinians and destroying their areas,” Abu Marzouq stated.
He recalled what occurred in 1967 when Palestinian villages had been destroyed to power the residents to depart.
But he added that “this war remains the fiercest and harshest on the Palestinian people in terms of the daily Israeli massacres against Palestinians.”
“We will remain steadfast here [in Gaza] and we will not repeat the tragedies [of expulsion] that we experienced in the past,” Fathi Abu Marzouq added.
As a results of the 1967 conflict, 300,000 Palestinians had been displaced from Gaza and the West Bank. Most of them escaped to Jordan.
In November 1967, the UN Security Council in decision quantity 242 urged Israel to withdraw from the territories it had occupied within the 1967 conflict.
Israel solely withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, as a part of a peace settlement between Israel and Egypt enacted in 1979.
Yet, Israel continues to flout UN resolutions calling to finish its occupation to the Palestinian territories in addition to to the Syrian Golan Heights.
Source: www.anews.com.tr