Tensions in the Middle East
- Created by: eviedeehan
- Created on: 16-03-24 10:57
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- Tensions in the Middle East
- Political
- Israel - many would like to see the creation of Palestine as a state alongside Israel
- Israel genocide in Gaza
- 7th of October - Hamas committed a terror attack in Israel killing 1200 and taking 240 hostages
- Yemen Houthi involvement by firing missiles and drones at Israel
- Hijacking ships that travel through the Bab al Mandab Strait as many ships need to pass through to reach the Suez canal which connects trade routes between the East and the West
- US and UK involvement with air strikes on the Houthis
- Yemen Houthi involvement by firing missiles and drones at Israel
- Israel retaliated with genocide - 30,000 have been killed, 12500 are children
- 73,000 are injured, 8000 are missing
- 360,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged
- 83% of water wells are not functional
- as of March 16th 2023
- 7th of October - Hamas committed a terror attack in Israel killing 1200 and taking 240 hostages
- Iran and Iraq - ethnic, religious and historical differences
- US and UK invaded Iraq in 2003 - huge quantities of toxic smoke from oil fires - fuel used in conflict could have supplied the economy of 1.1 billion people
- many OPEC countries with high % of world oil output
- some argue that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was the US ability to access Iraqi oil
- Political
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