In the Gaza Strip (specifically in the Al-Jalla’a / Al-Jalaa district of Gaza City) there is a neighborhood where a significant portion of Afro-Palestinians (Black Palestinians, descendants of people from Africa) traditionally live, and it is often called حارة العبيد (Harat al-Abeed / Haret al-Abeed) or simply العبيد (Al-Abeed). This literally translates as “neighborhood of the slaves” / “the slaves.”
Context and confirmations
“Abeed” / “ʿabīd” (عبيد) is an Arabic word meaning “slaves” or “servants” (the plural of ʿabd). Historically it is connected to the Arab slave trade, in which Africans made up a large share of the enslaved people, and it is still frequently used as a derogatory term for dark-skinned people in the Arab world.
According to estimates, before October 2023 about 11,000 Afro-Palestinians lived in Gaza (roughly 1% of the Strip’s population), and many of them were concentrated in this area. Sources (including Wikipedia, Gulf News reports, and Arabic media such as Sama News) explicitly state that the neighborhood is called “Al Abeed” / “Harat al-Abeed” with reference to the history of slavery.
Similar references exist elsewhere: in Jericho the Afro-Palestinian area is sometimes called “the slaves of Duyuk,” and in Jerusalem it is referred to as the “slaves’ prison” (habs al-abeed).
Origins of the community
Many Afro-Palestinians are descendants of Africans (from Sudan, Egypt, Chad, Nigeria, Ghana and other places) who were brought to the region as slaves or servants from the early Islamic period and the Umayyads through Ottoman times. There were also later waves (pilgrims, soldiers, merchants). Slavery in Palestine officially persisted for a long time (it was still observed in the 1930s), and its legacy appears in social stereotypes, restrictions on marriage, and sometimes discrimination in employment — even without formal laws.
This is not an “official” name of the district on modern administrative maps, but a common colloquial and historical designation that reflects the legacy of slavery and lingering prejudices. Many Afro-Palestinians themselves prefer other self-designations (for example, sumr — “dark-skinned”) and consider the term “abeed” offensive. Both Arabic and Western/Israeli sources document the phenomenon in the same way.
Der ehemalige ägyptische Ministerpräsident Mubarak bestätigt Bill Clintons Aussage:
Die Palästinenser haben JEDES Friedensangebot abgelehnt – Camp David, Oslo, Mena House.
Sie wollen keinen Staat, sie wollen Israel vernichten.
Sie wollen keinen Frieden! https://t.co/U6AafnfLul
@koshercockney Палестинское государство, просуществует до момента решения о создании центрального банка и налогового департамента, потом они поубивают друг друга.
In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.
I will release it!
This is how Gaza fooled the world with the fake “genocide.”
Same actors.
Same script.
Same choreography.
Anyone who believed them must feel really stupid right now.
Never forget October 7.
Hamas terrorists murdered an 18-year-old girl in front of her entire family, then they dragged her father away, kidnapped him, and murdered him in captivity.
They proudly filmed every second of it.
A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims.
The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones.
Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating.
Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter.
Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?https://t.co/JvfJEtk8LA
Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy.
There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West.
But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: https://t.co/LTTjiO1s7E)
Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault."
And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases?
I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game.
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Короткое, две минуты. Вы думаете, это дождь? Нет, это не количество осадков, а количество ракет, упавших на Израиль за последние три года. Статистически точная наглядная иллюстрация. Это о чрезмерной израильской реакции и "геноциде".
Автор ролика (c) Eugene Afonin