Israeli Acts of Genocide in Gaza Strip

Sami Hadawi

Transcribed from the clipping

“The acts of genocide and brutality which are being perpetrated by the Israelis against some 300,000 Arabs in the Gaza Strip... will go down in history as the darkest stain on the record of not only the Israelis, but also of those politicians and powers who have permitted such a state of affairs to go unquestioned.” And later: “Whereas cries of ‘murder’ and ‘salvation’ in the case of the events taking place in certain parts of Europe are read in every newspaper in the western world... the miseries and sufferings of the 300,000 Arabs living in the Gaza Strip pass unnoticed and without even a word of condemnation or compassion.”

Context added by this archive

The earliest bare use of the word about Palestinians in this collection, in a headline, in 1956. It is Arab-American community press rather than a daily: the advertisements on the page are for shops in Norwalk and New London, Connecticut. That is why it sits in a different column of the count from the mainstream papers.

Cite this item

"Israeli Acts of Genocide in Gaza Strip," Caravan, 27 December 1956. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-010

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U.N. DEMANDS IMMEDIATE CEASE FIREDaily American Republic · 1956 · the same year
Egypt, Israel Hurl Charges In Security Council NotesThe Salt Lake Tribune · 10 April 1956 · the same year
U.N. Starts On-the-Spot Inquiry In Israeli Shooting of 30 ArabsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch · November 1956 · the same year

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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