The Gaza wall: Humanitarian Violation

 Gaza Wall and its Humanitarian Violation

    Gabe Madi

                                                                             11/3/2020


    With the creation of the Israeli state in 1948, ethnic issues and conflicts since then with the Arabs have been consistent. One of the most major groups affected by this conflicts are the Palestinian people whos land was overwritten by the creation of the Israeli state. Since then conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis continued up to its highest boiling point in 1993 when the First Intifada started. the First Intifada was a 5 year long period of protests and riots due to the now occupied West Bank and Gaza by Israel since 1967 due to the 7 Days War. As a result of these protests, the Israeli government started the project of creating a larger physical border alongside port embargos; preventing any sort of exports or imports. Finished in 1996, the Gaza wall cut off valuable resources critically needed for survival in the now tiny occupied province of Gaza. 
    Now that resources such as construction materials, water and food is now severally limited and can only pass through by authority by Israel, tensions between the two ethnic groups grew even higher. Again the pot spilled in the year 2000 when the 2nd Intifada started because of their deteriorating living conditions. Again as a result of these riots, the Israeli government started to improve on the Gaza wall security and started construction of the wall around the West Bank province. However as a result, Israel pulled out their solders from the Gaza Strip. Even though Israel pulled out their occupation, they still launched raids inside the Gaza strip with frequent air strikes and night raids.  
    Now that all of what is left of Palestinian territory is either under embargo or closed off by walls and checkpoints, human living conditions have fallen bellow the international standard. This started UN intervention to help bring food and water to the people of Gaza and West Bank. However even with outside support, Infrastructure including markets, houses and other needed businesses remain limited due to low building materials, frequent air raids and instable economy. Therefore even with all the outside help from other nations, the embargos and the walls around the provinces reduce the effectiveness of outside help. 
With the Gaza and West Bank wall effectively cutting the 2 provinces in half and stopping trade between contractors from Israel and other Arab nations, human living conditions have severally dropped below the sustainable limit proposed by the UN. These terrible living conditions brought on by the construction of the wall increased the already visible fire of tensions between the Palestinians and Israelis with no end in sight if there no compromises between the two. 




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