02nd Nov, 2021. 10:49 am Share this post on KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories: Perched on his sofa in a windowless room, leaning forward on his cane, Bassam Barbakh said Israel’s first military incursion into Gaza 65 years ago was seared into his memory. “I swore when I was a child that if I lived a thousand years I couldn’t forget what happened,” the squat 73-year-old told AFP at his home in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. Israel’s controversial history in the Palestinian enclave includes nearly four decades of occupation — from 1967 to disengagement in 2005 — and a blockade since...