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Originally Posted by _Q_
But I think you're thinking of the home demolitions in your North American context and fail to see how devastating it is for those in the Palestinian territories. In the Middle East a home is usually passed on for generations, housing entire families at once usually. It's not just a building that can be rebuilt easily. Add on to that the complications of obtaining building permits from the Israeli authorities as well as the poverty a lot of these people live in and you can see how absolutely devastating this can be for a family.
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This is such garbage.
The Palestinians are one of the fastest growing populations in the world. They aren't passing down houses through generations. They are building homes on a vast scale.
You're trying to promote this narrative that the Palestinian town have been there for generations and that Israel is demolishing them to build modern homes over top of them.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Palestinians like the Israelis have built up huge settlements in the past few decades. In areas of land where there was little to no buildings 60+ years ago.
In 1882 the Population of Gaza City was 16,000 and in 1945 it was just over 30,000. In 1982 it was 100,000. It's current population is over 500,000:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_City#Demographics
The vast majority of homes are going to be first generation.