This collection holds 86 gaza quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Desmond Tutu, George Galloway and Ahmed Yassin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza.

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

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

It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.

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

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

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

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

It's their choice, the choice of the people of Gaza, to create the real peace or at least to create conditions of coexistence.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

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

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.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

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.

One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.

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.

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.

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.

We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

Sometimes I think that if we have to go back, then it certainly won't be to Jerusalem. Not to the Jerusalem beset with racism that we left at the height of the last Gaza war.

I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But can't Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I'm frozen in time.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

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