Israeli Political violence

This article treats Israeli Political violence, i.e. of the use of violence by the army or the government Israelis in the political context of this conflict.

Since 1947, in the Israeli-Arab context of the conflicts israélo-Palestinian and , the area of the the Middle East knew 7 conflicts or wars of scale intersected with periods of disorders or cold war making close to 100 000 dead.

Military and police violence

Died of civilians

Several teenagers of the Gaza Strip were assassinated by Israeli snipers. According to the Israeli group of defense of the human right B' Tselem, they are 1.722 civilians, of which the third of minors, who were killed by the Israeli army since the beginning of the second intifada.

Various Israeli-Arab wars

Before the creation of Israel

Great Arab Revolt in Palestine
Civil war of 1947-1948 in Palestine agent

After the creation of Israel

Bombardment in South-Lebanon and civilian victims

See the detailed articles: Southern Lebanon and Saïda

Alliance with the phalangists and consequences

See also: Massacre of Sabred and Chatila

Military interference in the other countries

Lebanon

Iraq

the engine Osirak

Massacres of civilians

Qibya in Jordan, October 14th, 1953, by unit 101 of the Israeli army
Kafr Qassim, October 29th, 1956, at the time of the Operation Hafarferet
Irbid, June 1968
Have-Salt, August 1968, Jordan, use of napalm bombs on the village.
Bahr Al-Baqar, Egyptian village whose school was bombarded by the Israeli army
Al-Qunaytera, on September 6th, 1975, Issac Rabin allowed that the army was responsible for the destruction of this Syrian city.
Abu Za' ball, February 12th, 1970. Bombardment of a factory.

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Economic violence

Problems of the " checkpoints" Israelis

The checkpoints are sometimes an embarrassment with displacement, and contravene freedom to circulate: that has also important economic consequences of increase in, and problem costs of transport of organization of companies of the labor when the people cannot arrive on their work place.

Air and maritime embargo

presence of a maritime barrier preventing the tradind ships.

Destruction of infrastructure of trade

destruction of the infrastructures of Gaza
destruction of the infrastructures of Lebanon

Destruction of cultures

Expulsions and destruction of houses

To repress the Palestinian activists, the Israeli government regularly asks the Israeli army to destroy the houses of the families of its activists. They are then whole families which find themselves with the street.

Wall

The barrier of separation, of which the goal of construction is, according to Israel, to put an end to the infiltrations of terrorists on the Israeli territory, is denounced by Palestinens like a confiscation of their grounds (cultivable, in particular), and like an obstacle with displacement. The number of attacks in Israel dropped significantly since the construction of this barrier.

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