What the media won't tell you about Gaza

The Gaza Strip represents about two percent of Palestine’s historic landmass. Prior to the creation of Israel in 1948, it was administratively, politically, and economically linked to the rest of Palestine. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist paramilitary and later Israeli military forces destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages. They carried out more than 70 massacres against civilians, killing more than fifteen thousand Palestinians. 750,000 Palestinians, or over 80 percent of the population, were expelled or fled their homes and became refugees. More than one-third ended up in Gaza. Today, more than 80 percent of Gaza's population are refugees and descendants of refugees from that period of ethnic cleansing of Palestine.