The presence of Palestinian refugees in Syria dates back to 1948, when over 80,000 people from Northern Palestine sought refuge in Syria. They were then followed by 3 major batches of refugees in the years 1956, 1967 and 1973 until their numbers exceeded half a million people, according to The United Nations Relief and Works […]
Genocide: The politics of Blockade
Throughout history, the political strategy of laying siege on cities has been practiced on a wide scale in many regions across the world, the most famous examples in our recent history being that of Sarajevo in the 1990s (blocked off by the Serbian army), the siege of Grozny imposed by Russian forces, and the blockade […]