What is the Gaza Strip conflict about?

Answer 1

Palestinian Answer

Zionists invaded Palestine and changed the name to "Israel". Many Palestinians were forced from their homes into concentration camps, such as Gaza.

Israeli Answer

Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza, has presented no terms an no way to negotiate for a two-state solution. Naturally, Israel, as any state would, is trying to make sure that Hamas does not ever have the capability to destroy the State of Israel. Israel is doing this on multiple levels, including blockading the region, using targeted airstrikes to remove the Hamas leadership, and on occasion, invading the region militarily. For people like the above Palestinian, the notion that the Zionists may have some rights to a State is completely out of the question, therefore it is impossible for them to arrive at a peaceful negotiated solution. If you note the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, while it is certainly not peaceful, those Palestinians have much more ability to be productive and develop internal infrastructure because they have not rejected Israel so vehemently.

Answer 2

many years there was israeli Settlements in gaza strip, in the summer of 2005 israel get out from there, since then there isn't israel Presence in gaza strip, but hamas the other isalmic Organizations has take over the gaza strip, and start to shoot Missiles over israel cities, this Situation forced israel to defense itself

Answer 3

Presently (mid-November 2012), rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel

for months. Israel finally decided it was enough. The government of Gaza has

no interest in stopping it, so Israeli citizens have two choices: Go in and take

out the rocket launchers, or suck it up and live with it.

For those who have a hard time visualizing the situation in places they have

never visited or never even heard of, it might help to contemplate what the

people of San Diego might decide to do if they were being rocketed day and

night from Tijuana, or folks in Miami from Havana, or Manchester from Liverpool.