Charles Thompson | cthompson@pennlive.
More than 338,000 Palestinians have been displaced by the fighting, electricity and water are cut off, and there is limited access to food and medical supplies. “It’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, oppression and terrorism... Stop calling it a conflict,” stated one.Some protestors grew visibly frustrated when reporters tried to draw out their comments on last Saturday’s Hamas attack, irritated that journalists would feel obligated to ask them that now, when they believe what Israel is doing now will be far more deadly and just as indiscriminate.
That’s a Palestinian side of the story, many argued, that is routinely overlooked or ignored by most new media reports. The one-sidedness of the discussion only seemed magnified by a series of “we stand with Israel” statements It remained under Egyptian control until the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, when Israel seized the territory and occupied it, along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians claim these territories and see them as part of a future state.