The 2012 Gaza Massacre: How, Why, and What Is Next?

One can predict without hesitation that this latest massacre in Gaza will not be the last. Violence is an inherent part of an Israeli system unwilling to abandon its failed policy of aggression.

by Yazan Al-Saadi

During Israel’s eight-day brutal assault on the Gaza Strip in November 2012, one hundred sixty-two Palestinians, including more than a 100 civilians and 40 children, were killed by sophisticated bombs unleashed from the sky and sea onto the most densely populated strip of land on the planet.

The Israeli attack also caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage to property, vital infrastructure (already in terrible decline after Israel’s attack in 2008–9), and thousands of physical and mental injuries to Palestinian civilians.