We Can Add the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to the Collected History of Horrific Concentration Camps
Concentration Camp: “a camp in which people are imprisoned or confined, commonly in large groups, without trial….Usually, those people belong to groups the government does not like.”
Throughout the collective history of concentration campus, we can identity some general conditions including brutal working conditions, insufficient supplies of food, clean water, sanitation, rampant disease, inadequate medical services and medications, lack of freedom of movement outside the limits imposed by occupying forces, rescinded human and civil rights, and in many instances, military incursions, armaments, bombardments, and death.
When the topic of concentration camps arises, most people think of the series of armed encampments constructed and maintained under the Nazi regime in Germany and throughout its conquered territories during the 1930s until the end of World War II in 1945.
Some were designated as forced hard labor encampments, while others the Nazis constructed as massive death factories for the murder of those the regime considered undesirable. The first of these…
