A Land of Conflict
千年難解的衝突之地──加薩走廊
Looking at Gaza throughout Its Turbulent History and Its Modern-Day Turmoil
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Gaza is only about 25 miles long and seven miles wide, but this small strip of land is one of the most fought over in history. It was an Egyptian base, a royal city for the Philistines and the place where the Hebrew hero, Samson, betrayed by Delilah, met his death. Since then, much blood has been spilled.
The most recent contest for Gaza began at the end of World War II, when persecuted Jews traveled to Israel from Europe, looking for a new start after the horrors of the Holocaust. In 1947, the United Nations created a plan to split Palestine into two lands—one for Jews and one for the Arab people.
Backed by the U.S. president, Harry S. Truman, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founder, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Egypt then attacked Israel through the Gaza Strip. Israel was victorious, but Gaza remained under the control of Egypt, and an influx of Palestinian refugees began.
In 1967, war broke out between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. In what became known as the Six-Day War, Israel seized the Gaza Strip and held it for 40 years.
Israel pulled its forces out of Gaza in 2005. In 2006, Hamas, a group sworn to destroy Israel and listed by the United States, the European Union and others as a terrorist group, won a landslide victory in Palestinian legislative elections. Hamas was now in control of the territory. However, Israel still controls much of the area’s access to and from the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel and Hamas have been exchanging blows. Israel maintains that Hamas is a violent terror organization, while Hamas says that they [it] represent[s] an oppressed people being victimized by the Jewish state. The international community continues to press for a cease in violence, but for now, the strip’s population of 1.8 million people are trapped in the cross fire.
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加薩只有大約二十五英里長和七英里寬，但這一小片狹長的土地是歷史上數一數二最受人爭奪的。它曾是埃及的基地、非利士人的王城，也是被大利拉背叛的希伯來英雄參孫喪命的地方。自此之後，這裡發生了很多殺戮。
最近一次對加薩的爭奪始於第二次世界大戰結束時，當時受迫害的猶太人從歐洲跋涉到以色列，尋找大屠殺威脅後的新起點。一九四七年，聯合國創建了一項把巴勒斯坦分成兩塊土地的計畫──一塊給猶太人，一塊給阿拉伯人。
在美國總統哈利．S.．杜魯門的支持下，以色列國父大衛．班恩–古理安於一九四八年宣布以色列國建立。埃及接著通過加薩走廊攻打以色列。以色列打贏了，但加薩仍在埃及掌控之下，而巴勒斯坦難民開始大量湧入。
一九六七年，以色列、埃及、約旦和敘利亞之間爆發戰爭。在這場後來被稱為六日戰爭的戰事中，以色列佔領了加薩走廊並控制該地四十年。
以色列於二○○五年從加薩撤軍。二○○六年，一個誓言摧毀以色列並被美國、歐盟和其他國家列為恐怖組織的團體哈瑪斯在巴勒斯坦的立法委員選舉中贏得了壓倒性勝利。如今哈瑪斯掌控著那片領土。然而，以色列仍然控制著該地區進出加薩走廊的多數通道。
自此之後，以色列和哈瑪斯一直在交戰。以色列堅稱哈瑪斯是個極端的恐怖組織，哈瑪斯則表示該組織代表被那個猶太國家迫害的受害人民。國際社會持續要求終止暴力，但目前而言，加薩走廊的一百八十萬人口正受困於駁火當中。
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