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Palestinian man concerned for his friends and family in Palestine
The News, Portsmouth
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12/10/2023
Palestinian man concerned for his friends and family in Palestine
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My name is Osama. I come from a city called Nablus in the West Bank of the occupied territory of
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Palestine. Of course in my home city we lived with the Jewish community, very nice, peaceful.
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We loved each other, no harm. We lived in peace and harmony.
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I've been in England for a long time. I consider myself British and Palestinian as well because
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you can never ever forget your homeland. First of all I must insist as we lived in peace before
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we'd love to live in peace again. Now the situation now in the Middle East is very difficult.
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For the last let's say 75 years since the establishment of the state of Israel, 15th of May
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1948, there have been so many wars. So many thousands of innocent people get displaced
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of their homes, of their country, murdered, left their country, left their houses, left their land.
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And three wars 1948 war, 1967 war, 1973 war.
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How many people get killed? That is a shame.
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Again what is the United Nations or the international community doing about that?
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Nothing. It's only one-sided. When the Palestinians defend their country, they want their rights,
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they want to live in peace, they are called something else. Before we say anything we should
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listen, we should look at the history of the conflict. We should look at the history of the
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conflict, what causes it and why is it there. We had lots of opportunities for peace. I believe,
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if I remember, Yasser Arafat signed a court with Israelis I think in 1994 for peace and they were
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given the West Bank of Jordan to do the self-rule country including Gaza. But 16 years ago with the
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differences between the Palestinians themselves, Gaza was separated from the West Bank and they
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have their own ruling people. Where the West Bank is with Mr. Abu Mazen as you know. But for 16 years
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the Gaza Strip was suffocated. There's no sort of like, they don't have borders,
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they cannot leave their city in peace. It's very difficult for them to leave or come back
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through the Egyptian border or through the Israeli border. What do you expect? People starving, sick,
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they're short of electricity, gas, water, medicine, everything. So many peace agreements
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happened between the Gaza Strip and the Israelis. Nothing gave a fruit, nothing happened. Therefore
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the people get fed up. I personally, I don't agree with the bombardment of civilians.
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I think the war should be between armies and the innocent civilians should be involved in
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these sort of things. And of course we always pray for peace everywhere in the world. And
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for my home country I wish the peace will prosper and this killing to stop, God willing.
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Palestine is a country for the three religions. We have the Christianity, the Jews and the Muslims.
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We always lived in peace and harmony. I have no families in Gaza but I have friends
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and they're telling me how bad it is. They see the buildings go upside down.
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They're telling me about hundreds and hundreds of people get injured, hundreds got killed,
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there's no water, there's no electricity, no internet sometimes, no medicine.
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And they are suffering now or before, to be honest with you, now or before, during the conflict or
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before. Because the people of Gaza have been squeezed between Israel and Egypt and it's very
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difficult sometimes to get the supplies. I'm asking everybody to refer to the ambassador
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and the United Nations, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations. He was asking the same
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questions, why and how. And for me, all what I do, I pray for peace, I pray for my country,
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I pray for everybody in the world, for the oppression, for the oppressor, for the oppressed
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people all over the world. I pray for them and I hope the oppression of any kind will be lifted
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off the people all over.
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