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Destruction of Gaza heritage sites aims to erase –and replace– Palestine’s history | The Conversation

"Palestine has always been an area of great strategic importance, and it has been populated by various civilisations throughout history. Its emptiness can therefore only be explained by a false history, one that stems directly from the Israeli settler movement, which seeks to destroy the material traces of other cultures that point to a much more complex past than they would like to admit.

This complexity has been painstakingly proven in a Forensic Architecture report on an archaeological site known as Anthedon Harbour, Gaza’s old maritime port, which was first inhabited somewhere between 1100BC and 800BC.

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The conflict [since Israel officially declaring a state of war] [...] has become an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe for 2.3 million Palestinians. The numbers are appalling: over 41,000 dead, including more than 14,000 children, almost 100,000 wounded and more than two million displaced.

A month after the outbreak of the war, UNESCO, at its 42nd General Conference, stated that “the current destruction and eradication of culture and heritage in Gaza is yet to be determined, since all efforts are now being concentrated on saving human lives in Gaza.”

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Cultural property has been a target of the Israeli offensive since the beginning of the conflict and, as early as November, the devastation of the cities of northern Gaza far exceeded that caused in the infamous bombing of Dresden in 1945. We cannot forget that the Gaza Strip is just a narrow area of coastal land measuring some 365 km², rich in archaeological and historical sites, that the international community has recognised as occupied territory since 1967.

Research over the last century has counted at least 130 sites in Gaza that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to protect under international law along with the rest of the area’s cultural and natural heritage. These obligations are laid out in the following conventions : Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948); the Geneva Conventions (1949) and their annexes, and the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954).

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The destruction of Gaza’s cultural heritage is intertwined with the ongoing humanitarian crisis. This link is recognised by the International Criminal Court, which states that:
“Crimes against or affecting cultural heritage often touch upon the very notion of what it means to be human, sometimes eroding entire swaths of human history, ingenuity, and artistic creation.”
Many independent reports and articles have begun to break down specific elements of the destruction in Gaza, speaking not just of genocide, but also of cultural genocide, urbicide, ecocide, domicide and scholasticide.

[...] Israel is accused of attacking infrastructure to bring about the physical destruction of the Palestinian people, with their attacks leaving some 318 Muslim and Christian places of worship in ruins, along with numerous archives, libraries, museums, universities and archaeological sites. This is all in addition to destroying the very people who created Palestine’s heritage.

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The Israeli military arbitrarily links mosques, schools, UN facilities, universities and hospitals to Hamas, thus justifying their indiscriminate destruction. By declaring these buildings legitimate targets, it does away with any distinction between civilian and military targets.
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The Israeli regime’s actions are driven by a genocidal logic, a logic that forms an intrinsic part of its colonisation project. Its ultimate aim is to expel the Palestinian people from their land, and to wipe away any trace of their culture and history."

An article by Pilar Montero Vilar, investigator of the Observatory of Cultural Heritage Emergencies, October 9 2024.

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The fact that an aspiring autocrat has won an election does not oblige us to submit to him. No one should excuse being complicit in tyranny on the grounds that other people voted for it.

https://crimethinc.com/democracy

People will scribble in a box for any number of reasons—misinformation, advertising, bigotry, fantasies of power—regardless of whether it is actually in their best interests. But what we do every day determines what kind of society we live in.

Möchtegernautokrat Donald Trump hat die Wahl gewonnen. Was ist bloss mit der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft los? https://www.woz.ch/!EA4B370PAJX6

Actually most humans are not responsible for climate change. It's not the individual's fault. It's the fault of the collective and not all collectives.

Indigenous folks are not responsible for climate change
Neither are working class folks. Neither are people in developing countries.

The world is held hostage by colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Oil companies have been lobbying for keeping fossil fuels the main source of energy worldwide, it's not like common people wake up every day fetishizing oil-dependency.

African energy ministers and states in general do not represent the will of the people. They're states. They also play a role in the climate crisis.

It's not the fault of working class americans. It's the fault of american capitalists, european capitalists, chinese capitalists, and capitalism globally as a whole. The class war against the world's working class is already happening. I want the working class to strike back because no amount of change under this system will solve climate change. You can't reform capitalism. The exploitation of human and natural capital is at its core.

Really I'm not interested in changing the minds of the hundreds of people buying cybertrucks. They're irrelevant. That's like saying, how are you going to fight climate change if you don't have Adam bitcoin miner tech bro on your side? Their personal change in lifestyle is irrelevant. Their scale is irrelevant. Their opinions are irrelevant.

What is relevant -and always has been- is giving the working class and communities ownership of the means of production. And the working class has to do this, not cybertruck owners, not the rich, not capitalists. Here it is explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69DFis2WgMQ