Israel’s First Occupation Of Gaza Was Triggered By The Suez Crisis. Bassam Barbakh, seated on his sofa in a windowless room and leaning forward on his cane, recalled Israel’s first military assault into Gaza 65 years ago. “I pledged as a child that if I lived a thousand years, I’d never forget what occurred,” the squat 73-year-old told AFP at his house in Khan Yunis, Gaza’s southern district. Israel’s tumultuous history in the Palestinian enclave includes nearly four decades of occupation (from 1967 to 2005), as well as a blockade since 2007, when Hamas Islamists gained control. When Egypt’s military...
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