Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
5 May
GAZA RESISTS ISRAELI ESCALATION
This day in 2019, was the second day of Palestinian resistance factions firing 700 rockets across the Gaza perimeter and of Israel bombing and shelling Gaza. The rocket attacks followed an Israeli airstrike and sniper attacks that had killed four Palestinians, and injured 60. Israel then struck 120 sites across Gaza, killing more, including pregnant Amani al-Madhoun. The EU called for Palestinians to end rocket shootings across the Gaza perimeter but declined to suggest what they should do to end the blockade.
غزة تقاوم التصعيد الإسرائيلي
5 مايو
مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2019 ، كان اليوم الثاني لإطلاق فصائل المقاومة الفلسطينية 700 صاروخ عبر محيط غزة ، وكذلك اليوم الثاني لقصف إسرائيل لقطاع غزة. وجاءت الهجمات الصاروخية في أعقاب غارة جوية إسرائيلية وهجمات قناصة أسفرت عن مقتل أربعة فلسطينيين وإصابة 60. ثم قصفت إسرائيل 120 موقعًا في أنحاء غزة ، مما أسفر عن مقتل المزيد ، بما في ذلك الحامل أماني المدهون. دعا الاتحاد الأوروبي الفلسطينيين إلى إنهاء إطلاق الصواريخ عبر محيط غزة ، لكنه رفض اقتراح ما ينبغي عليهم فعله لإنهاء الحصار.
The EU has purchased from Israel the same deadly technology that the Israeli army has used against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip during Israel’s so-called ‘Protective Edge’ war of 2014.
The latter fact represents the backbone of Israel’s marketing strategy. Branding its military products as ‘combat-proven’, Tel Aviv is able to obtain top dollar for its bloody technology, as it is able to demonstrate, using actual footage, how its armed drones, for example, can flatten whole Palestinian neighborhoods in seconds and return safely to their bases inside Israel.
According to British charity, War on Want
"Israeli military and industry sources openly attribute the success of Israeli exports to the weapons and technologies being ‘combat proven’ in the Occupied PalestinianTerritories (OPT). This means that when the UK imports Israeli arms, it is helping Israel benefit from unlawfulpractices. Despite Whitehall’s official controls on arms exports, UK-made arms and military technologies continue to be sold to and used by the occupying Israeli forces.
"Importing arms from and selling arms to Israel makes the UK complicit in Israel’scontinuing violations of human rights andinternational law."
What makes Israeli weapons more attractive than others is the fact that they are not accompanied by any political price tag. In other words, Israel is willing to sell weapons to any country, or even non-state actors, openly or secretly, regardless of how these weapons are used and whether their use violates human rights or not.
Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression - Pamphlet from IJAN (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network)
Israel exports weapons, technologies, training, and techniques of violence for use by governments and corporations against populations around the world. The expertise on which it relies has been developed through its occupation of Palestine and parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, as well as its repression of and military aggression against the people living there.
The colonization of Palestine was once part of the British and French assault on the movement for Arab unity and independence that threatened European control of the region’s resources. The state of Israel is now a junior partner in the US-allied strategy for the same control of the region’s resources.