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CRISIS IN GAZA STRIP, ITS SOLUTION AND ROLE OF UN

INTRODUCTION 

1. Gaza is a small strip of land, approximately 25 miles long and six miles wide, on

the Mediterranean coast of Israel. For the past 38 years, it has been controlled by

Israel. It is home to more than 8,500 Jewish settlers and approximately 1.3 million

Palestinians. Its shape and size were determined by the armistice agreement signed

by Israel and Egypt after the first Arab-Israeli War (1948-1949).

2. Gaza is considered one of the fifteen territories in the world that comprise theso-called "Cradle of Humanity." The armistice line between Egypt and Israeloriginally defined the Strip’s recent borders after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, whichfollowed the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine. Conflict of Gaza crisishas got a quite long history.At present stage it burning question for peace lovingpeople.

3. The paper is going to develop on the following steps:

a. Genesis of the Recent Escalation and Present Situation.

 

(1) Occupation of the Palestinian lands

(2) Mass killing(3) Unemployment .

(4) Basic needs.

(5) Tunnel problem.

b. Solution of the Crisis. 

(1) Two State solution

(2) Bringing Harmony Among the Factions.

(3) Stop Cross Border Violation.

(4) Stop Killing Innocent People.(5) Creating Opportunity for Palestinian

 

c. Role of UN

 

(1) Enforcing two state solution.

(2) Stopping the violence in West Bank immediately

(3) Assist in grooming up as a viable state

(4) Ensure basic needs. .

(5) Forming an international committee.

(6) Ensure proper distribution of UN aid.

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Aim

4. The aim of this paper is to focus on the present sit in Gaza Strip and solution and

role of UN in this aspect.

GENESIS OF THE RECENT ESCALATION AND PRESENT

SITUATION IN GAZA.

5. The recent escalation in Gaza has made world silence with the breach of humanity. But the reasons behind this massive offensive is not so obvious. It might be

final assault to destroy and crush resistance of Hamas to form a new government in

Gaza. There might be revenge behind it for defeat in Lebanon by Hezbollah or keep

them suppressed about their right.

6. Occupation of the Palestinian lands in Gaza . Three basic arguments arebeing used by various Palestinian factions to claim that the Gaza Strip will still be

"occupied" even after Israel has completely left. First, as long as the Palestinians areunable to exercise full sovereignty in Gaza, the Palestinian foreign minister, Nasser al-Kidwa, maintains that the territory is still "occupied," particularly because of Israel's continuing control of Gaza's territorial waters and its airspace. For SaebErekat, who heads the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department, since the Gaza Stripand the West Bank were designated as "one territorial unit" in the Oslo Accords,Gaza disengagement affects only a portion of the total territory under discussionand, therefore, its legal status remains unchanged. But "occupation" is not just arhetorical or political term. It is first and foremost a legal term in international law.The legal termination of occupation clearly does not require that all the politicaldemands of one party in a territorial conflict be met in full. That would make the endof occupation highly subjective. Instead, it must be based on certain legal criteriabeing met.

7. Mass killing in Gaza . Israel military in their 22 days relentless and indiscriminate

missile fires by F16 jets and bombing by Apache gun helicopters and tanks and use of 

 phosphorous on residential houses, school, hospitals, humanitarian charity offices and UN

refugee camps killed over 1300 innocent people including more than 400 children and

wounding more five and half thousand men, woman and children. It was a campaign of racial

hatred, extermination and cleansing of Palestinian of their own land.

8. Unemployment in Gaza .The unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip now stands at 45 percent, higher than anywhere else in the world, according to a report released recently by

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the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

 Nearly 95 percent of all factories operating in Gaza have been closed down in recent years,

says the report. Israel's year long economic blockade on the coastal territory and repeated

closure of electricity and fuel sources have also contributed to the humanitarian crisis.

According to a separate report published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency

(UNRWA), the unemployment rate in the West Bank reached 25 percent between July andDecember 2007 - double the average rate in the Middle East and North Africa region.

9. Basic Need . Gaza Nearly four months since the end of hostilities in Gaza, it is

increasingly apparent that massive needs are going unmet, and reconstruction is stalled.

Donors have pledged money for humanitarian aid and for Gaza reconstruction, but on the

ground the flow of goods compared to the needs is wholly inadequate, and reconstruction is

in practice impossible.Roughly 75 percent of the 1.5 million residents of Gaza require some

kind of assistance. But even the most essential imports are subject to intense limitations by

Israeli authorities. Only food and a few other items are allowed in. Reconstruction materials

and essential spare parts of all kinds are essentially banned. An Israeli ban on exports, apart

from a few lorry-loads of flowers, has exacerbated the situation by further crushing Gaza’s

 job-creating industries.Protection, food, water, healthcare and shelter are basic human needs,

not bargaining chips. It is high time that fact is recognized by all the parties responsible for the immense suffering in Gaza today.

10. Tunnel Problem. The tunnels connect the Egyptian town of Rafah with the

Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah. These tunnels were primarily constructed for the purposeof illegal arms smuggling to supply terrorist activity[citation needed] but have subsequently

also been used to smuggle people (in and out) as well as for commercial profit making

smuggling of as medicine, food and clothes, cigarettes, alcohol, and vehicle parts into

Gaza.Rafah is located on the borderline of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. As a result of this

geographical location, it accommodated tunnels and has a history of smuggling. These

tunnels were and are mainly used by Palestinian militant organizations and gangs for weapon

smuggling, and bringing cheap goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.

SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM

11. Two State solution. A two-state solution, a comprehensive peace,” for Israel and

the occupied territories. A two-state solution envisions two separate states in the Western

 portion of the historic region of Palestine, one Jewish and another Arab to solve the Israel-

Palestine conflict. According to the idea, the Arab inhabitants would be given citizenship by

the new Palestinian state; Palestinian refugees would likely be offered such citizenship as

well. Arab citizens of present-day Israel would likely have the choice of staying with Israel,

or becoming citizens of the new Palestine.

12. Bringing Harmony Among the Factions. The two-state solution to the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict, is the consensus solution that is currently under discussion by the key parties to the conflict. It is contrasted with other options, most notably the Jordanian Option,

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also known as the 'no-state solution' and the 'Allon Plan', and the binational solution, which

could either be twin regime federalist arrangement or a unitary state.

13 Stop Cross Border Violation. Under the conditions prevalent at an uncontrolled

 border many unwanted incidents may take place.As the conflict over Gaza heats up and

Israeli incursions and attacks increase the civilian body count, Arab public opinion will only become more inflamed by the graphic television images being broadcast out of the Strip.

14. Stop Killing Innocent People. War brings blood and ceases lot of lives. But the

death of innocent civilian is the violation of human rights. Now in both Palestine and Israel

are affected through this escalation. This should be stopped immediately.

15. Creating Opportunity for Palestinian. The massive attack has destroyed the

structure of the development. To regain the dev flow scope of work needs to be ensured.

ROLE OF UN.

16. Enforcing Two State Solution. The Palestinians want sovereignty over the Gaza

strip and the west bankterritories Israel gained control over in the 1967 war. Israel withdrew

from Gaza 2005 , but Jewish settlements in the West Bank remain. A deal could include land

swap for Arab dominated areas inside Israel.

17. Stopping the violence in West Bank immediately. Israeli-Palestinian security

coordination,ensure a viable cease-fire, and maintain calm on the ground by training the

Palestinian security personnel and working with Egypt to reconfigure the Multinational Force and

Observers (MFO) currently stationed in Sinai to patrol the border between Gaza and Egypt. These

measures would build muchneeded confidence between the Israelis and the Palestinians. In

addition Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, andSyria, are reeling from internal demonstrations in

support of democratization,giving the United States a new source of leverage to get them behind

the peace process.

18. Assist in grooming up as a viable state. The UN Relief and Works Agency for 

Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had temporarily suspended all but its

emergency health and food programmes in Gaza last week after the killing of two of its

workers. WFP called on all parties in the occupied Palestinian territory “to respect theindependence and neutrality of humanitarian workers and installations and calls on parties

concerned to return the stolen goods and equipment immediately,” adding that it could only

continue its operations so long as the safety of its goods and staff is assured. The agency

estimates that it currently helps about 665,000 people in the West Bank and Gaza.

19. Ensure Basic Needs . In Gaza today, humanity has taken a back seat to politics,

and a measly trickle of items has become the most the world can offer civilians trapped by a

 political stalemate not of their making. The work of rebuilding the infrastructure ruined

during the invasion and by almost two years of closure, and providing for Gaza’s most

vulnerable the children and aged must be elevated from an afterthought to a

 priority.Protection, food, water, healthcare and shelter are basic human needs, not bargaining

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chips. It is high time that fact is recognized by all the parties responsible for the immense

suffering in Gaza today. UN representative to ensure the normal flow of basic need.

20. Forming an international committee . Britain, anxious to rid itself of the

problem, set the United Nations in motion, formally requesting on April 2, 1947, that

the U.N. General Assembly set up the Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP).This committee recommended that the British mandate over Palestine be ended andthat the territory be partitioned into two states. But now the present crisis demandsan international committee to bring peace in Gaza .

21. Ensure Proper Distribution of UN AID . to help the Gaza people the help of 

money and equipment. These help neeeds proper distribution to the affected people. For 

example, it could be used to provide urgent shelter for the most vulnerable. The UN

estimates that around 100,000 people have been displaced as a result of the conflict withinGaza and over 28,000 live in temporary shelters. The £1 million contribution will help the

UN's local Humanitarian Coordinator to quickly allocate funds to emerging priorities,

making them available to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other organisations

with staff on the ground to meet immediate humanitarian needs.

CONCLUSION

22. Gaza disengagement has evoked global interest in one of the most complex and critical

issue of the world. As of now, however, it seems to stem out of political expediency rather than moral needs.The irony of the innocent people should terminate very soon is the sole

desire of time now. When Palestenian will move to schools and get the books to educate the

young generation of who has been deprived of the basic education and their subsequent

employment, will not only do good to the Palestinian community rather will benefit the Israel

as well, who has a acute shortage of skilled labour.

23. End the disproportionate destruction of Palestinian lands, water and other resources

and Palestinian Authority infrastructure for social services, so that the Palestinians can

 become self-sufficient and sustain a functioning economy, which will be vital for a future

Palestinian State

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RECOMMENDATION

24. Self-determination for the People of Palestine. The people of Palestine,

like all people, have the right to determine their own destiny. This will take form in the

social, economic, political, and cultural structures they create.

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25. Following Geneva Convention. The Israeli Supreme Court should

recognize the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention as part of customary international

law.

Annex:

A. Map of Gaza Strip

Distribution:

Directing Staff 

Potential Platoon Commanders course

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