Top 167 Gaza Quotes & Sayings

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.

We said we are ready to establish our independent state in any part from which the Israelis withdraw or which is liberated. Any part. The moment they withdraw from Gaza, I will establish my state there in Gaza.

Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.

One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism.

I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.

Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

There are no innocents in Gaza. Mow them down kill the Gazans without thought or mercy.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms of Gaza but also the Hezbollah and Lebanon, with the continuing crisis in Iraq, which is very dynamic and unpredictable and which could get out of hand, and maybe even escalate and enlarge.

There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.

From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza

I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be no Jews in Gaza.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

If the Gaza ceasefire proves stable, Israel will not remain in the Strip.

Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

Gaza itself is subject to constant aerial surveillance by drones and is rife with informers and collaborators with Israel.

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more

The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

The anger of the people in the Gaza Strip is mainly directed toward those who are responsible for the dire living conditions, for the occupation and the blockade. But, yes, for sure, as is the case everywhere, there are some who oppose the government. But they are very few compared to the close to 2 million inhabitants of Gaza suffering under Israel, the occupying power.

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.

We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.

If you are a Jewish Israeli, you go to Gaza, you get the villa of your life, the villa which you did not dream of ever getting in Israel, a beautiful two-story villa with green meadows and so on, practically for nothing. Then you put up hothouses of tomatoes or flowers; you take the very Arabs from whom you grabbed this land and employ them as laborers in your hothouses. Israeli law does not apply in Gaza: There is no minimum wage, no annual vacation, no compensation for dismissal - so you get the work very, very cheap. It is a wonderful setup economically.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital