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Oct 7, 2023 · The Palestinian territory of Gaza has been under a suffocating Israeli blockade, backed by Egypt, since Hamas seized control of the coastal strip in 2007. The blockade restricts the...
Nov 8, 2023 · Photograph: Three Lions/Getty Images. Gaza. This article is more than 6 months old. Explainer. Gaza: who lives there and why it has been blockaded for so long. Most people in the strip, once part...
For example, between 1993 and 1996, total closure was imposed on the Gaza Strip for a cumulative 342 days. During periods of total closure, Israel enforced a complete ban on any movement of people or goods between Gaza and Israel, the West Bank and foreign markets.
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The Israeli blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip, in its current form, has been in place since June 2007, when Israel imposed an airtight land, sea and air blockade on the area. Israel controls Gaza’s airspace and territorial waters, as well as two of the three border crossing points; the third is controlled by Egypt. Movement of people in and out o...
Israel’s siege on Gaza has devastated its economy and led to what the UN has calledthe “de-development” of the territory, a process by which development is not merely hindered but reversed. About 56 percent of Palestinians in Gaza suffer from poverty, and youth unemploymentstands at 63 percent, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statist...
Founded in 1987, Hamas emerged during the First Intifada that saw a popular mobilisation of Palestinians against the Israeli occupation. On January 25, 2006, Hamas defeated Mahmoud Abbas’ long-dominant Fatah party in parliamentary elections. Hamas then kicked Fatah out of the Strip after the latter refused to recognise the vote’s results. Since 200...
Since laying siege on Gaza in 2007, Israel has launched four major, sustained assaults on the area between 2008 and 2021. In 2008, after Hamas pushed out Fatah, the first major Israeli assaulton Gaza continued for 23 days. Referred to by Israel as “Operation Cast Lead”, 47,000 homes were destroyed and more than 1,440 Palestinians were killed, inclu...
Aug 7, 2022 · The Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million people, has been under an Israeli-imposed land, sea and air blockade for the past 16 years. (Al Jazeera) By Mohammed Haddad. 7 Aug 2022. |. Updated : 9 Oct...
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Oct 16, 2023 · After 56 years of occupation and a 16-year blockade, the Gaza Strip (Gaza) is now subjected to what Israel’s defence minister described as a “complete siege”. Water, food, energy and fuel...
Oct 9, 2023 · After the creation of Israel in 1948, Egypt controlled Gaza for nearly two decades. After Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War against its Arab neighbors, it gained control of the Gaza Strip ...
