• steventhedev@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Jabalia Refugee Camp was established in 1948.

    It’s not a temporary housing measure. The buildings are all high-density multi-family dwellings constructed from reinforced concrete.

    Calling it a refugee camp cheapens the word for people who are displaced from their homes and forced into temporary housing during a war.

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      1 year ago

      It’s still a refugee camp. It houses refugees who have been displaced. Many Palestinian refugee camps are X number of years old because Israel has been ethnically cleansing them for decades. It doesn’t matter how you define it, no one “made shit up”, it’s classed as a refugee camp. The UN set it up as a camp, but here comes some random regular jackoff on lemmy trying to tell us otherwise.

      The audacity of pro-Israelis in twisting all international definitions is beyond me.

      Again, the very fact that it’s been a refugee camp for decades where people have shitty living conditions makes this bombing that Israel did worse, not better.