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Live Tracker - Gaza 2023

Israel-Gaza war in maps and charts: Live Tracker

Al Nakba (from Aljazeera)

Palestinians refer to it as “Al Nakba”, which literally translates as “The Catastrophe”. It refers to the mass exodus of at least 750,000 Arabs from Palestine. Though most believe this event began in 1948, in fact, Al Nakba began decades earlier.

Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question

Explore thousands of events, biographies, highlights, places and primary documents, in the first interactive platform entirely devoted to the Palestine Question.

Report: Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians

Amnesty International has analysed Israel’s intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights.

It has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.

Books

List of books that talk about Israel and Palestine, most writers are Jewish:

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: by Ilan Pappe
• Fateful Triangle: by Chomsky
• Goliath, Life and Leathing in Greater Israel: by Max Blumenthal
• The Isreale Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Israel-Palestine on Record
• Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict: by Norman G. Finkelstein
• A History of Modern Palestine, One Land, Two Peoples: by Ilan Pappe
• Righteous Victims: by Benny Morris
• The War for Palestine
• The Israeli Holocaust against the palestininans
• The punishment of Gaza
• Pity the Nation: Robert Fisk
• The Gun and The Olive Branch: by David Hirst
• Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid
• Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History: by Norman G. Finkelstein
• The Holocaust Industry: by Norman G. Finkkelstein
• All the Shah’s men

B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

From their “about” page: “B’Tselem is an independent, non-partisan organization. It is funded solely by donations: grants from European and North American foundations that support human rights activity worldwide, and generous contributions by private individuals in Israel and abroad”

Short Videos: Palestinian Human Rights

These videos, from CSRR (Center of Security, Race, and Rights), offer some facts on the harsh realities facing Palestinians living under occupation.

Video: John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, the context and reasons for October 7

John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power.

He is the book author of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” which he received wide backlash for from the American Jewish lobby.

In this video, John details the root causes for what happened in October 7th 2023. The ideology of the state of Israel and how the lobby influences US policy towards Israel.

Video: What Events Lead to the Current Situation in Israel and Palestine?

Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D. in political science at Princeton University.

In this video, Norman provides a detailed modern historical view of how the Israeli state was created, the impacts it had and the modern wars that Israel has raged on Gaza and Palestine detailing their consequences.

Digital Projects

The Institute for Palestine Studies has assembled a number of databases and collections of documents on the question of Palestine that constitute a rich source of information for researchers and scholars.

IPS is in the process of acquiring and disseminating a range of other original resources and making them available in digital format for users.

Report: Operation 'Cast Lead': 22 days of death and destruction

From Amensty International, this link talks about Operation Cast Lead.

On December 27, 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive, 22-day military assault on the Gaza Strip. The ferocity of the attack was unprecedented in the more than six-decade-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, killing some 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians

For more information, check Facts and figures (PDF).