The Israeli-Palestine Conflict

This is a map of Palestine — as it was before its land was given to the Jews, the partitioned land in 1947, after the 1967 war, and in 2000. You can see clearly that about 90% of the land had been seized by 2000. The Palestinians have even less land today, and the little that remains is being systematically reduced. During Israel's Operation "Cast Lead", more than 280 schools and kindergartens were destroyed in Gaza in less than 3 weeks by the Jewish military. Also rendered unusable were Gaza University and the Islamic University. Jewish military forces directly and intentionally bombarded the United Nations school which was sheltering more than 1,300 people. Gaza's American school was similarly destroyed by intensive bombardment with white phosphor munitions. The military repeatedly bombs all the schools in Gaza, claiming they are the source of 'rocket attacks' on Israel. The Israeli government has clearly instructed its military to target and destroy all educational institutions in Gaza, as part of an overall plan to eviscerate the social structure of Palestine and its people. It has been so bad that a new word emerged from the carnage in Gaza: "scholasticide" — the systematic destruction by Israeli forces of centers of education dear to Palestinian society, as the ministry of education was bombed, the infrastructure of teaching destroyed, and schools across the Gaza strip targeted for attack by the air, sea and ground offensives. The photo is of the United Nations school.