Israeli blockade of Gaza at heart of crisis
The Israeli military subsequently launched retaliatory airstrikes followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where more than 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas came to power in 2007. Gaza, ...
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More generally, the blockade and the multiple rounds of destruction of parts of the Gaza Strip have made food sovereignty in the territory nearly impossible. Much ofGaza’s farmlandis along the so-called “no-go zones,” which Israel had rendered inaccessible to Palestinians, who risk being sho...
frontier every Friday since March, calling for the lifting of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade imposed on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power in 2007. The protesters burn tires and hurl rocks and firebombs at Israeli forces dug in behind sand berms on the other side of the ...
In the past 13 years, Israel and Hamas have been engaged in three major wars that claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis. The blockade has pushed Gaza's population deeper into poverty, while unemployment in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level. ...
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Gaza's sole power plant will have to shut down within 48 hours if ablockade imposed by Israelis not lifted, officials warned on Thursday, as border tensions simmered following the arrest of a Palestinian militant leader. Israeli authorities have closed all crossings intoGaza, cutting off access ...
Their homes separated by a wheat field, barbed wire, and Israel'sblockade of the Gaza Strip,...By MitnickJosh
"To us, the mosque was a newborn baby that we all looked after," said Kamal Salim, who sat on a committee that oversaw its construction. "With the blockade of Gaza, we struggled to find building material and the donor hired guards to stop anyone from attempting to use the...