I Read Somewhere That Gaza Is Similar In Area To The...

[sandyRoe]

...Isle of Wight.  If there were 2.3 million people living on the IoW would it be very crowded?

[Canary42]

I once read somewhere that the entire world population would fit on the Isle of Wight standing shoulder to shoulder - if that helps!

[Canary42]

150,000 current population of Isle of Wight. So 2.3 million would rather swamp it, with 15 people for every existing resident. I believe that it is said that in the summer the population more than doubles with tourists.

[Ellipsis]

No, the Isle of Wight is way bigger than Gaza. 380 square kilometres versus 45.

[Old_Geezer]

Cities are crowded. My guess is that there's still plenty of open space.

[ichkeria]

Gaza is less densely populated than many major cities. I suppose the point is they can't leave.

Speaking of which, where are they going now?

[sandyRoe]

Living in Gaza now must be like being in a concentration camp.  Death could reach out and touch you and your loved ones at any moment.

[Ellipsis]

This may be a helpful comparison - Gaza vs London:

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/ftcms%3A05e654ba-babd-4c8a-b709-32b37587f122?source=next-article&;fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1

Of course, a lot of Gaza has been flattened since that image was created ...

[THECORBYLOON]

ELLIPSIS, I don't know where you got your figures from but Wikipedia shows the area of the Gaza Strip is 
141 square mile and the Isle of Wight is 
148 square mile.

[ichkeria]

Where are Gaza's refugees going? They don't appear to be going anywhere?

[ichkeria]

...

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218388766/egypt-israel-gaza-palestinians-hamas#:~:text=Egypt%20has%20rejected%20allowing%20an,that%20Israel%20has%20apparently%20considered.

[ichkeria]

So Egypt doesn't want them because it doesn't  want them "displaced"?

Bizarre 

[Untitled]

egypt has allowed some people who hold foreign passports to leave... other than that there is nowhere for gazan refugees to go. israel has now bombed areas it has told people to flee to several times... it is now attacking khan younis which a few weeks ago was deemed a safe area to flee to but even before now they were still bombing it and killing refugees. 
 

there's nowhere safe for them to go at all. 

[ichkeria]

What I'm getting at is: for alk the supposed outrage at what is going on, I don't hear many invitations from anyone to accept refugees 

[sandyRoe]

And facilitate Israelis plan for ethnic cleansing?

[ichkeria]

Well that's my point really: it appears to me that innocent Palestinians are hostages to the obsession with ethnic cleansing. 

[ichkeria]

Putin currently tries to ethnically cleanse parts of Ukraine, but imagine if we said; "no don't let them leave: that would be doing his work for him".  And that IS ethnic cleansing 

[Untitled]

egypt's refusal to take refugees is a despicable act of irresponsibility in my view... the reason they won't however is because once refugees are forced out of gaza then israel will never ever allow them to return. there is even a good chance that they would start to consider palestinian refugees inside egypt a threat to their security and start bombing campaigns in sinai or whereever. 
 

israel's plan is to either drive every resident out of gaza permanently or to kill them - whichever comes first. that way they can seize the land. this is effectively what the smotrich plan amounts to. 

[ichkeria]

As I say: the world's hostages. An argument that is specious and morally bankrupt and one reason I detest the Palestinian flag wavers in the other side of the world.

Over the past decade or more the Gaza Strip has become a huge factory of terrorism: its tunnels like the tubes of an alembic: one feared just as much by the Arab world as by Israel. Palestinians are hostages to a political cause: kettling them in the strip suits everyone. Except it's Israel that was getting the worst of it 

[Untitled]

i'm not arguing in favour of egypt's decision to keep their borders closed... not sure why you think i am. I think the humanitarian cause of preserving life should prevail.

i'm sorry but your portrayal of israel as the blushing blameless victim in all this is just untrue. the israeli government has done an awful lot of work to bring this situation about. it has put its own citizens in harms way.

[Peter Pedant]

Of course, a lot of Gaza has been flattened since that image was created ...

no, it has been liberated. this is AB you know