Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip Tuesday, neighborhood by neighborhood, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in…
Tuesday, Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the sealed-off territory, now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
“Our community is really hurting right now. San Diego has a 25-year History with Shar’Hanaga, a collection of communities along the Gaza border, the Gaza envelope, as we refer to it, and these were the communities that were directly attacked," Sara Brown, regional director for the Jewish Committee in San Diego said.Ahlam Muhtaseb, Ph.D., a professor at Cal State in San Bernardino, said Israel had prevented more than 2.2 million Palestinians from having access to basic needs.
“Gaza is under total Israeli military siege,” Muhtaseb said." The Israeli minister of defense announced two days ago that he will not let electricity, water, food, power anything into Gaza." Janet Winston, Ph.D. is a professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. She spent time in Gaza. Winston is Jewish American but has taken time to better understand the Palestinian perspective.
“For quite some time, I felt a need to learn more about Israel and Palestine as a Jewish American,” she said. “If you are a people who have been oppressed for over 75 years from an occupying force, you want to resist that oppression, you want to resist that occupation, you want to resist the theft of your home and your land and you want to resist ethnic cleansing,” Dr. Winston said.
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