500 innocent civilians killed and this is your reaction.
Courtesy of Hamas
I kept repeating myself....Palestinians aren't the enemy of Israel...Hamas is...why aren't they releasing the hostages franky?
Muslims and jews have co-exist before...in Gaza
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Jews and Muslims coexisted for more than a decade but tensions grew and, in 1987, a Jewish shopper in a Gazan market was stabbed to death. The next day an Israeli truck accidentally killed four Arabs, sparking the first riots of what would become the first
intifada. A brief period of calm followed the
Oslo agreements as Israel agreed to withdraw from parts of the Gaza Strip. Ultimately, the
Palestinian Authority assumed control over about 80 percent of the area, but an escalation of violence, especially after September 2000, led Israel to impose stricter measures on Palestinians in the area, and to engage in frequent military operations to prevent terrorist attacks against soldiers and Jews living in the Gaza settlements as well as infiltrations to attack targets inside Israel.
On August 17, 2005, Israel began to
evacuate all the Jews from Gaza. It was expected to take several weeks, but took less than one. Israel and the Palestinians agreed the buildings would be razed and the army began that process after the residents left.
A total of 1,700 families were uprooted at a
cost of nearly $900 million. This included 166 Israeli farmers who produce $120 million in flowers and produce. Approximately 15 percent of Israel's agricultural exports originated in Gaza, including 60 percent of its cherry tomato and herb exports. Israe also lost 70 percent of all its organic produce, which was also is grown in Gaza.
Since the disengagement process was completed, no Jews have been present in the Gaza Strip.