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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Where Muslims Are Oppressed
Palestine
For over half a century and without any justification, the Muslims
of Palestine have been driven out of their homes, shot, attacked, seen

their houses demolished, had their lands and fields destroyed, and tor-
tured and treated with violence. The world media have reported very
few of the cases in which such inhumane treatment has been meted out
to women, children, and young people.
Since the 1948 occupation of Palestine, where 70 percent of the
population is composed of young people, children have been dis-
placed, arrested, imprisoned, or murdered. Palestinians are treated like
second-class citizens in their own land. In those areas where this ag-
gression is especially intense, every day several children are killed and
more than 10 are wounded. In Palestine, which is surrounded by hun-
dreds of control points, people are living in a sort of open air prison.
Traveling to a place for daily activities turn out to be a torture and
sometimes even transporting an emergency patient to a hospital may
not be possible.
Without any provocation, a man bringing home bread may be
shot before the eyes of his pregnant wife and children. Helicopters
open fire on women working in the fields, but no explanation is ever
given. Children returning home from school are shot and killed. Many
of them die because ambulances are not allowed to come and take
them to the hospital. Millions of people have been living for years in
hunger and misery in refugee camps, and many Muslims, including
women, are subjected to all kinds of torture in prisons. Besides, there is
the constant threat of a new bombardment. (For a detailed discussion
see Harun Yahya, Palestine [Islamic Book Service: 2003].)
However, it also needs to be made clear that it is impossible to

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