Joey Mendez Soc 122

Joey Mendez

70th Anniversary of Nakba Killings

The Israeli Military has killed Sixty-one people are dead and another 2,700 are wounded at a protest for the opening of the U. S. Embassy in Jerusalem. It has been the deadliest days for Palestinians since they launched the nonviolent Great March of Return on March 30. This is all going down when the United State of America is illegally opening an embassy. The story also talked about how tragic it is that America is celebrating the opening of an embassy while Israel is killing and even injuring thousands of civilians. Palestinians have launched a general strike to mark 70 years since the Nakba where hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes after the state of Israel was formed. White house deputy press secretary Raj Shaw was asked if Israel should shoulder some of the blame? He went on to say that they believe the Hamas are responsible for this and that it is a propaganda attempt. They then went on the interview Sharif Abdel Kouddous who is at the scene of the killings and woundings of tons of people. He described it a scene of chaos in many ways with burning tires, tear gas, young men throwing rocks, and these kites flying over. He also went on the explain how the sniper bullets were not coming in a barrage of fire. He said it was methodical and precise. He explained the shootings as "you hear a shot and somebody goes down, you carry his bloody body away, wait a few minutes and you hear another shot and another body falls". He talked about how the hospital was a huge scene of chaos. The floors were all bloody with people all over the place sitting in pain from shot wounds and tear gas. It's crazy to hear the Israeli army was shooting these people from the other side of the border. Israeli soldiers were saying the palestinians were posing a threat when the other thing they has was rocks. None of the Israeli soldiers were even injured so how do they feel a threat? The democracy now people asked him to explain what the 70th Anniversary of Nakba means. He went on the explain how it means catastrophe. It marked the moment when 720 or 750 thousand Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes to gaza and to other countries. For 70 years they have asked for the right to return to their home land, but have been denied that right for the past 70 years. It's crazy to me that these people are forced to live in refugee camps. They call these marches the great march of return. They are trying to give themselves the right to return by cutting the wires to cross the border but are either shot or forced to return to gaza. It crazy to me that these people were shot for doing something that didn't put any of the Israeli army in danger. Yeah they had rocks and flew kites that had fire on them, but they also have guns but none of those were brought out and shot at the Israelis. They were just peacefully protesting and should not have been shot at for it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/15/palestinians_mark_70th_anniversary_of_nakba