PKKH Exclusive | Atiq Durrani
Around 600 Palestinians including more than 150 children has been killed by Israeli Defence Forces till now in this one-sided war between the military might of Israel and thestone pelting civilians of Palestine.
Although the way the world has dealt with the Palestinian Issue, Israel with all its military might does not need any reason to start bombardment on the Palestinian citizens but this time the issue of the abduction and killing of three Israeli youngsters GiladShaar, NaftaliFrenkel and EyalYifrah became the reason of the death of hundreds of Palestinians. Israel DefenceForces blamed the abduction and killing of these Israeli kids on Hamas, although Israeli security forces were unable to gather any evidence to support their allegations, stillthe IDF killed several Palestinians and arrested hundreds from West bank, at the beginning of the crisis.
Arrests and killings of Palestinians ignited the issue; Hamas fired hundreds of rocket towards Israel that were not even able to kill a single Israeli or damage any property in Israel because of the Iron Dome Air Defence System of Israel. This system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 kilometers to 70 kilometers away and whose trajectory would take them to a populated area. In response of the rocket attacks Israeli aircrafts bombed dozens of sites in Gaza and later started a ground operation in Gaza and killed hundreds of Palestinians including women and children.
Worldwide protests erupted against the Israeli aggression in Gaza. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters protested against the barbarism of Israeli DefenceForces onthe streets of the cities of Europe, Africa and Asia. Most of the processions/protests around the world were peaceful except the procession in Kashmir where a boy, a grade-nine student, was shot by the police in theIndian Held Kashmir during a protest against Israel’s military offensive against Palestinians in Gaza.
In this way the first and the only global pro-Palestinian protester has been killed in Indian occupied Kashmir, but why didthis happened only in Kashmir? Why only a Kashmiri has been killed for protesting against the Israeli aggression?
The answer is very simple, Kashmiris and Palestinians are not much different from each other, there are many similarities in Kashmir and Palestine conflict,and even the occupants of their areas also stand in the same ranks. This could be the reason that the security forces of Indian held Kashmir were not able to tolerate the protest of one oppressed Muslim nation (Kashmiris) for the other oppressed Muslim nation (Palestinians).
The roots of these two conflict lies in the year 1947, when many states in South Asia and Middle East gained independence from the British Empire. India got independence in 1947 and in the same year Israel was founded on the basis of a United Nations decision to partition the territory between the Jordan River and Mediterranean sea between two states, one Arab and one Jewish.
Later both India and Israel illegally occupied other territories in the region that gave birth to theKashmir conflictandthe Israel conflict. India and Israel both used their military might to oppress the people of their illegal occupations. Every year hundreds of innocents are killed in these areas, many havewent missing and have never come back, every year the highest number of human rights violations are recorded in these two areas, the security forces of the occupants can raid any area any time and will rape the women and arrest men by blaming them to be the freedom fighters. There have also been reports about close coordination between India and Israel in strategic knowhow upon how to deal with the people of the areas occupied by them?
At many occasion Israel hastrained and helped the Indian security forces in curbing the independence movement in Kashmir. Both occupants are violating UN resolutions every day because theUnited Nationshas not managed to solve this problem in decades. Both of these conflicts are the oldest unresolved conflicts in the world and two greatest examples of the failure of United Nations.
In all this barbarism at the handsof India and Israel, the people of Kashmir and Palestine are fighting for their right of self-determination and freedom. Generations of Kashmiris and Palestinians fought for their rights and are still fighting against the two nuclear powers and great military might’s of the world . Stone pelting kids are arrested and tortured or simply shot during demonstrations but this stone pelting has never stopped in the decades of their struggle. India and Israelhaveused all the tactics they know, tried every vindictiveness in the book but they have not managed to stop these stone pelting kids, they have not managed to erase the love for freedom from the hearts and minds of the people of Kashmir and Palestine.
The message is clearfor the occupants - in the decade’s long struggle for freedom and the thousands of sacrifices made by the people of Kashmir and Palestine in form of their lives - that their hope for freedom cannot be suppressed by killing them.
Source PKKH.tv
