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Crisis in Gaza
In this section we present articles about the crisis in Gaza. We present them as our contribution to a deeper understanding of the issue. The opinions expressed in these articles do not necessarily represent the views of the members of NIMN. Clicking on a link will open the web page or document in a new browser window.
| TITLE: Four Deaths: Whose Security? | | AUTHOR: PHR-Israel | | The stories of the deaths of three women and one baby girl ... give a small glimpse ... in which the suffering of sickness and the cruelty of a hostile bureaucracy combine to embitter the last days of these people’s lives. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza: A Humanitarian Implosion | | AUTHOR: Oxfam | | The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been since 1967. [It] is man-made, completely avoidable and, with the necessary political will, can also be reversed. |
| TITLE: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OPT | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | 110 Palestinians, including 51 civilians, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip. The victims include 27 children (including 2 babies) and 6 women and a paramedic. 69 of the victims were killed by IOF in Jabalya ....
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| TITLE: [PDF] ESCALATION IN VIOLENCE: 27 FEB - 3 MARCH 2008 | | AUTHOR: OCHA Humanitarian Update | | The IDF operation exacerbated an already deteriorating humanitarian situation emanating from the near total blockade on Gaza since June 2007... |
| TITLE: Narratives Under Siege (6): Abed Rabbo St, East Jabaliya | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | “I heard shooting, then screaming. I rushed upstairs to see what had happened, and they were both on the floor. Jaqueline was already dead, but Iyad was still alive.... |
| TITLE: PCHR Press Releases and Photos | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | These press releases [and photos] detail the mounting ... toll in the Gaza strip. ...108 Killed, 54 of them Civilians. |
| TITLE: At least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem press release | | Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting |
| TITLE: Palestinian Health System in Gaza on Brink of Collapse | | AUTHOR: PHR-Israel | | Following Israel's military operations in Gaza, hospitals in Gaza are now finding it almost impossible to function due to massive overload of injured people continuing to arrive for admission. |
| TITLE: Health Situation in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza | | The MoH (Ministry of Health?) has declared a state of emergency in all the MoH hospitals.. |
| TITLE: [PDF] THE SITUATION IN GAZA IS "GRIM AND MISERABLE" | | AUTHOR: UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF | | "I have been shocked by the grim and miserable things that I have seen and heard today, which are the result of current restrictions and the limitations on the number of goods that are being allowed into Gaza...” |
| TITLE: [PDF] Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | | AUTHOR: UN-OCHA | | 30 January – 5 February 2008 |
| TITLE: [PDF] Electricity Shortages in the Gaza Strip: Situation Report | | AUTHOR: OCHA | | The majority of Gazan households have power cuts of at least eight hours per day. Some have no electricity for long as 12 hours a day. |
| TITLE: Israeli High Court Okays Siege | | AUTHOR: Yuval Yoaz | |
High Court okays reducing fuel and power supply to Gaza Strip |
| TITLE: In response to the Supreme Court | | AUTHOR: Press Release | | "This is an unprecedented decision authorizing collective punishment in its most blatant form..." |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Closure: Situation Report | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | Access to Egypt and its shops may have provided some psychological respite from the closure of the Gaza Strip but 1.5 million Gazans still rely on Israel for all their supplies |
| TITLE: Narratives Under Siege | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | In order to highlight the impact of the siege and closure of the Gaza Strip on the civilian population, PCHR is publishing a series of "Narratives Under Siege." ... based on personal testimonies |
| TITLE: Gaza escape: too little, too late | | AUTHOR: Ed O'Loughlin in Rafah. | | Aid agencies warn that the goods coming across from Egypt this week... cannot even begin to compensate for the thousands of daily tonnes of imported fuel and supplies cut off by the now near-total Israeli blockade. |
| TITLE: Resolve the Crisis at the Rafah Border Crossing | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights Call Upon Israel, Egypt and the International Community to Resolve the Crisis at the Rafah Border Crossing |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Strip Humanitarian Fact Sheet | | AUTHOR: Inter-agency fact sheet | | ... shortages of food, medical and relief items, spare parts for critical health and water sanitation installations, materials for humanitarian projects and raw materials for Gaza’s commerce and industry. |
| TITLE: PCHR Calls On the International Community to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | PCHR believes that the conspiracy of silence practised by the international community has encouraged Israel to act as if it is above the law and encourages Israel to violate international human rights and humanitarian law. |
| TITLE: Israeli and Palestinian organizations petition High Court to resume fuel supply to Gaza | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | This request was filed as part of a petition against the sanctions on the Gaza Strip, from October 2007.
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| TITLE: Any Palestinian killed by Israel defined as Terrorist | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | It appears that the head of the ISA defines every Palestinian killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip as a terrorist. |
| TITLE: Emergency convoy of medical supplies/ High Court denies 8 life-threatening cases access to medical care. | | AUTHOR: PHR-Israel Update 9.1.08 | | Despite a previous High Court Ruling that stipulated that patients with security prohibitions should be ensured alternative routes of access to care, the Court refused to compel the State to ensure passage to the patients.
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| TITLE: [PDF] POWER SHORTAGES IN THE GAZA STRIP | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | Households in the Gaza Strip are now experiencing regular power cuts. |
| TITLE: Demonstrators hold symbolic funeral for victims of Gaza siege | | AUTHOR: www.chinaview.cn | | Palestinian demonstrators held a symbolic funeral for 60 late patients who died due to an Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip since June 2007. |
| TITLE: Gaza sewage, water disaster looms | | AUTHOR: MEL FRYKBERG | | Gaza Palestinians are facing an impending health disaster from decaying sewage and water systems that lack vital spare parts, fuel, and maintenance work, due to an Israeli economic siege on the Gaza Strip. |
| TITLE: Gaza Human Rights Organizations Condemn Violence between Fatah Supporters and Palestinian Police in the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Violence erupted after the Government in Gaza banned celebrations to mark the ... anniversary of the establishment of the Fatah movement, in what appears to have been a response to the ban imposed by the Government in Ramallah on Hamas marking the ... ann |
| TITLE: Supreme Court rejects rights groups' appeal against Gaza fuel cuts | | AUTHOR: Ynet News | | Court refuses to issue injunction against fuel cuts to coastal territory, says rights groups failed to prove Israeli measure would cause humanitarian harm
Associated Press |
| TITLE: Israel Supreme Court Sharply Criticizes State Attorneys | | AUTHOR: News Release, Tuesday, December 25, 2007 | | In court petition to prevent electricity and fuel cuts to Gaza,
Supreme Court Sharply Criticizes State Attorneys for Submitting Erroneous Information on Gaza Electricity Supply |
| TITLE: Court Document Reveals Military's Reckless Electricity Gamble in Gaza | | AUTHOR: News Release - December 20, 2007 | | State admits plan to cut electricity in Gaza is based on erroneous data
Gisha and Adalah: The military is recklessly endangering Gaza residents |
| TITLE: Israeli Operations in Gaza Meet Little Resistance in Washington | | AUTHOR: Nathan Guttman | | As Israel stepped up air attacks on Gaza this week, the Bush administration refrained from blocking any measures or criticizing Israel’s activity... |
| TITLE: The Situation in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Dr. Eyad Sarraj | | A shocking first-hand report about living conditions in the Gaza Strip was delivered Thursday (Dec. 13, 2007) to a group of Israeli peace activists... |
| TITLE: [PDF] The Closure of the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: OCHA Special Focus | | The isolation of the Gaza Strip has lasted six months, leaving the local economy to possibly face irrevocable damage and the population in Gaza more reliant on aid than ever before. |
| TITLE: The occupied Palestinian territories: Dignity Denied | | AUTHOR: ICRC Report | | The Palestinian territories face a deep human crisis, where millions of people are denied their human dignity. Not once in a while, but every day.
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| TITLE: ICRC calls for immediate political action to contain deep crisis | | AUTHOR: ICRC Press Release | | ICRC therefore appeals for immediate political steps to be taken ... Moreover, it calls on Israel to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law, to ease restrictions on movement in the Gaza Strip... |
| TITLE: Israel's High Court allows fuel cut to the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | ... any intentional harm to civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip is absolutely illegal... international humanitarian law does not permit “slight” punishment of a civilian population... collective punishment is absolutely prohibited. |
| TITLE: IOF Impose additional Collective Punishment Measures | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | The Centre calls upon the international community, especially the High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as UN organizations and international humanitarian organizations to intervene immediately to force IOF to stop this decisio |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Strip Humanitarian Fact Sheet | November 2007 | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | From mid June until the end of October 2007 75 Israelis (6 civilians, including one child, and 69 IDF soldiers)[were injured] [and] 142 Palestinians, including 12 children, were killed and 293 were injured, including 17 children...
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| TITLE: Fate of about 3,000 Students Threatened by the Closure of the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | IOF have cut the Gaza Strip off from the outside world since 10 June 2007... As a result, Gaza students studying abroad are deprived the right to travel to pursue their education. |
| TITLE: Palestinian Child Dies as a result of Delay in Allowing Entry to Israeli Hospital | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Amir Shaher Abdallah El-Yazji (8) from Sheikh Radwan Quarter in Gaza City died on Monday 19 November 2007.. after IOF delayed his entry ..to Ichilov hospital in Israel despite having the necessary permits to enter. |
| TITLE: Israel's blockade stops Gaza's strawberry-farmers | | AUTHOR: Donald Macintyre | | ... if the Palestinian farmers lose their place in the European market this year they will probably lose it for good to stiff competition from Spain and Egypt. |
| TITLE: Environmental and Health Disaster from Uncollected Garbage | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Piles of uncollected garbage constitute a serious environmental and health risk threatening the population. |
| TITLE: Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis: Who's to Blame for What? | | AUTHOR: Nadia Hijab | | Israel can never hope to feel secure so long as it is besieging Gaza and settling its people in the West Bank, in violation of international law, while precluding Palestinian development. |
| TITLE: Good news from Gaza | | AUTHOR: Gideon Levy | | Without violent Palestinian resistance, life in occupying Israel is great and no one pays any attention to the need to end the occupation. No resistance - no Palestinians. No terrorism - no progress. |
| TITLE: Amira Hass: A moment before the lights go out | | AUTHOR: Amira Hass | | The collapse of the sewage system entails a bigger humanitarian threat. |
| TITLE: Israel denies 21-year-old cancer patient medical treatment | | AUTHOR: Patient Na'el al-Kurdi, 21 | | Na'el al-Kurdi died while waiting for permission for treatment. PHR had petitioned the High Court to allow him and 10 other patients requiring urgent treatment to enter Israel or go abroad. |
| TITLE: [PDF] GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION REPORT - Oct. | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | The amount of goods entering Gaza has decreased by 71% ... from an average of 253 truckloads per day in April to an average of 74 in October |
| TITLE: Human Rights Organizations Petition (Israeli) Supreme Court | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | The Government Openly Decides... to Impose Collective Punishment on 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip; Petitioners: The Decision is Illegal and will Damage the Health, Safety and Welfare of the Population of Gaza
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| TITLE: IOF Prevents Anesthetics Imports to Gaza Hospitals, Endangers Lives | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | ...all patients requiring emergency surgeries face serious threats to their lives due to the stoppage of surgeries after the exhaustion of the Strip’s nitrous gas supply. |
| TITLE: Gaza goes hungry as Israeli sanctions bite | | AUTHOR: Conal Urquhart in Beit Lahiya | | According to a World Bank report issued last month: "Gaza's economic backbone and private sector vitality risks collapse if the current situation ... continues." |
| TITLE: [PDF] Situation deteriorates | | AUTHOR: GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION REPORT | | Since 19 September, a large reduction has been reported in the number of truckloads entering Gaza ... Food prices remain inflated. There has been a significant reduction in the number of patients crossing into Israel/West Bank... An escalation in IDF acti |
| TITLE: Hamas stamps its authority on Gaza | | AUTHOR: Nour Odeh, in Gaza | | Gaza's paralysed legal system has left the territory in chaos, but recent steps taken by Hamas to resolve the issue have been criticised both by Hamas's rival Fatah faction and by human rights groups. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Continued closure of Gaza crossings | | AUTHOR: The Humanitarian Monitor - oPt | | The Gaza economy continues to contract on a daily basis |
| TITLE: Israeli Occupation Forces Escalate Crimes in the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | PCHR strongly condemns these crimes, and is concerned that they are a prelude to additional crimes against the Gaza Strip.
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| TITLE: Israeli Occupation Forces Escalate Crimes in the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | PCHR strongly condemns these crimes, and is concerned that they are a prelude to additional crimes against the Gaza Strip... |
| TITLE: For Gaza’s Young at Play, Fields Can Be Deadly | | AUTHOR: Steven Erlanger | | The children — Yehiya, 12, Mahmoud, 9, and Sara, 9 — were tending goats and playing tag on Aug. 29 when an Israeli shell or rocket blew them apart. |
| TITLE: EU demands end to collective punishment of Gaza | | AUTHOR: Maisa Abu Ghazalah | | The European Union has demanded immediate steps to end the Israeli government's collective punishment of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip... |
| TITLE: The war on Gaza's children | | AUTHOR: Saree Makdisi | | Israel's sanctions are leaving a generation of Palestinian children poorly educated and hungry. |
| TITLE: [PDF] "The Gaza Strip: One Big Prison" | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | This publication surveys the various spheres of Israeli control in
the Gaza Strip.... |
| TITLE: GAZA: A CALL FOR URGENT ACTION | | AUTHOR: ICAHD | | (ICAHD) ... calls upon the international community to prevent this crime against humanity from being carried out.
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| TITLE: Israeli rights groups condemn proposed state sanctions against Gaza civilians | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem press release | | ... the sanctions constitute a grave breach of the foremost principle of international humanitarian law: the obligation to distinguish between combatants and civilians... |
| TITLE: The starving of the Gaza inhabitants is a crime and a folly | | AUTHOR: Gush Shalom Press Release 9/19/07 | | “With our own hands we are uniting a million and half people against us, in bitterness and hatred" |
| TITLE: UN chief: Cutting off fuel to Gaza is violation of international law | | AUTHOR: Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent | | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...warn[ed] that any cutoff of vital services would violate international law and punish the already suffering civilian population. |
| TITLE: 797 Deaths among Palestinian Children since the Beginning of the Intifada | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun ... took the lives of 3 Palestinian children from one same family |
| TITLE: [PDF] The Humanitarian Monitor | July 2007 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The July report highlights the impact of the continued closure of Gaza crossings on the economy, and specifically on the private and the agricultural sectors... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Situation Report | 15 – 23 Aug 2007 | | AUTHOR: United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the oPt | | Power cuts are still expected due to a continuing lack of capacity... All Gazan exports have been blocked since mid-June. Raw materials essential for Gazan businesses and industry have not been allowed to enter Gaza...
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| TITLE: Israeli Occupation Forces Attack Palestinian Fishermen | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | PCHR strongly condemns the escalation in attack by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against Palestinian fishermen and their boats.... |
| TITLE: FreeGaza.org - Breaking the Seige | | AUTHOR: FreeGaza.org | | We want to break the siege of Gaza. We want to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip and pressure the international community to review its sanctions policy and end its support for continued Israeli occupation.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access (AMA) Report No 45 | 25 July – 7 August | | AUTHOR: United Nations | | During this reporting period, 25 July – 7 August, Israel has allowed 5,166 Palestinians stranded in Egypt to return to Gaza through Nitzana Border Crossing on the Israeli-Egyptian border and then by bus to enter Gaza via Erez Crossing. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | | AUTHOR: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | The IDF killed 11 Palestinians and injured 27 others in the Gaza Strip. The IDF arrested 95 Palestinians in the West Bank and 81 in the Gaza Strip.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Situation Report | 31 July – 7 August 2007 | | AUTHOR: The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the oPt | | The limited opening of the Gazan crossings continues to weaken the Gazan economy.
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| TITLE: Staying alive in Gaza | | AUTHOR: The Economist | | Gazans remain stoical about their fate, as they have learnt to be. “Before we were being suffocated 85%. Now it's 90%. It's tolerable...” |
| TITLE: Palestinian doctor paints picture of Gaza under siege | | AUTHOR: Mark Almberg | | Sometimes it’s the little things that reveal the horror of oppression most vividly. |
| TITLE: Industry in Gaza Strip near collapse | | AUTHOR: Harvey Morris in Gaza City | | Four out of five factories have ceased operations, forcing producers to lay off at least 30,000 workers – on whom they say a third of Gazans depend for their livelihoods. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Situation Report: 24-30 July 2007 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The Gazan economy continues to deteriorate as a result of the limited opening of the Gazan crossings. If the closures continue, it is expected that at least 120,000 workers in Gaza will lose their jobs. |
| TITLE: Political Differences Threaten Loosing the Chance for University Education | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | The power struggle now threatens the future of thousands of Gaza Strip students... |
| TITLE: The Rafah Border Crossing Must be Opened | | AUTHOR: Joint Call | | 30 July 2007: Joint call by human rights groups to open the Rafah border crossing... The residents of Gaza may not be used as hostages in a struggle over control of Gaza .
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| TITLE: The siege on the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | The economic siege on Gaza and its consequences...The more the siege continues, the greater the harm to the residents and their ability to meet their basic needs.
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| TITLE: [PDF] GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION REPORT July 14-23 | | AUTHOR: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | Effects of closures, food supplies... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Summary monthly statistics Jan 2005 to June 2007 | | AUTHOR: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | The Protection of Civilians database contains quantifiable data from the Weekly Briefing Notes. These tables cover the period from 1st January 2005 to the end of June 2007. |
| TITLE: [PDF] GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION REPORT | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | During the last week, only 21% of the total daily consumption needs were met by imports.
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| TITLE: Gaza Strip Is Threatened by Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis: | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Economic Siege and Closure of Border Crossings Is Leading to an Imminent Humanitarian Crisis |
| TITLE: IOF Kills 11 Palestinians including 4 unarmed Civilians and 2 Children | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | ...27 June 2007, IOF conducted two incursions into the town of Khuza’a to the east of Khan Yunis and into Sheja’eya Quarter in the eastern part of Gaza City. Up to the publication of this report, these incursions resulted in the death of 11 Palestinians. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Situation Report June 20 | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | Crossing points into Gaza remain largely closed. Agreed mechanisms for commercial and humanitarian food imports have not yet been re-established.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] PCHR Condemns Attacks on Journalists and Media Institutions | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | According to PCHR’s documentation, a number of media institutions known of connections to the two parties of the conflict and others were attacked by militants from the two parties or by unknown militants... |
| TITLE: 17 June 2007: Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | As we write these lines, hundreds of refugees are trapped between Erez crossing, which is sealed, and the Hamas military force preventing their return to Gaza... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Resumption of factional fighting | | AUTHOR: OCHA Situation Report Gaza | | Factional fighting resumed between Fatah forces and Hamas and its affiliated Executive Support Forces (ESF) in Rafah in southern Gaza on 9 June ... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Joint Statement of United Nations organisations | | AUTHOR: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | ...the heavy street fighting ... is preventing the civilian population from reaching essential health services and food outlets. The fighting is also hampering the UN’s ability to deliver emergency services... |
| TITLE: Gaza Drowns in Blood Because of the Conflict between Fatah and Hamas Movements | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Gaza City has witnessed unjustifiable violent internal fighting |
| TITLE: IOF Kill 2 Palestinian Children in Northern Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | IOF infantry unit ... opened fire at 4 Palestinian children, who were playing with kites near the beach. |
| TITLE: [PDF] OCHA Situation Report Gaza - June 1 | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | Since the escalation in Palestinian-Israeli violence on 16 May, a total of 53 Palestinians including five children have been killed and 185 injured including 10 children... |
| TITLE: Damage by Israeli Air Strikes on Northern Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | ...a wide scale offensive that has been waged by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on the Gaza Strip since Wednesday, 16 May 2007, in which they have killed 48 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others... |
| TITLE: [PDF] IOF Escalates Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property | | AUTHOR: PCHR Weekly Report may 17-23 | | 32 Palestinians were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip. 17 of the victims are civilians, including 7 children. 97, including 18 children and 10 women, were wounded...
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| TITLE: [PDF] Rising poverty and declining access to services | | AUTHOR: The Humanitarian Monitor - oPt | | In Gaza, 53% said that their household income had fallen by more than half and 21% said their household income had stopped altogether... |
| TITLE: A New Nakba in the Occupied Palestinian Territory | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | PCHR strongly condemns bloody internal fighting between Fatah and Hamas movements in the Gaza Strip, and calls upon the two sides to calm down the situation and resort to dialogue.... |
| TITLE: Armed Palestinian groups must respect the rules of international humanitarian law | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | In the past seven months, 112 Palestinians have been killed in internecine violence in the Gaza Strip. At least twenty-five of these people did not take part in the hostilities... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Power Capacity in the Gaza Strip Insufficient | | AUTHOR: OCHA Special Focus | | On 28 June 2006 Israeli Air Force jets targeted the main power plant in the Gaza Strip following the seizure of an IDF soldier by Palestinian militants...
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| TITLE: [PDF] Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | ? Intensification of hostilities in the Gaza Strip:
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| TITLE: [PDF] Implementation of the Agreement on Movement and Access | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | Convoys between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank:
Truck convoys no discussion; implementation now 15 months overdue.
Bus convoys no discussion; implementation now 16 months overdue. |
| TITLE: Gaza's fish break the blockade | | AUTHOR: Yousef Alhelou | | Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip ... expressed their happiness over the most plentiful fishing season in 40 years. |
| TITLE: PCHR Strongly Condemns Bloody Attack in Rafah: | | AUTHOR: Press Release | | [E]ffectively investigate these incidents, which are part of the state of security chaos plaguing the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and bring the perpetrators to justice.
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| TITLE: Bleak reality in Gaza gives rise to dreams of emigration | | AUTHOR: Yousef Alhelou | | A survey published by An-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus says nearly one third of Palestinians would emigrate outside the Palestinian Authority territories if they could. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Palestinian Finance under Siege | | AUTHOR: Karim Nashashibi | | [T]he economic decline and institutional degradation that have followed in the wake of ...“the financial siege” of the PA. |
| TITLE: Israel still controls Gaza's foreign trade | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | The scope of Israeli control-Israel's obligations-Hostilities-Control of air space and territorial waters-Control over foreign trade-Rafah Crossing-Firing Qassam Rockets-Supersonic booms-testimonies
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| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access 4/4-4/17 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | Changes of note... |
| TITLE: Meet the Just Demands of Employees of the Gaza Strip Municipalities | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | PCHR also warns of an imminent environmental disaster due to the accumulation of garbage in the streets... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Fishing: An Industry in Danger | | AUTHOR: OCHA Special Focus | | The fishing industry faces long term decline and even possible extinction if the current restrictions are maintained.
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| TITLE: IOF Continues Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | The total siege imposed by IOF on the Gaza Strip has left disastrous impacts on the humanitarian situation and has violated the economic and social rights of the Palestinian civilian population, particularly the rights to appropriate living conditions, he |
| TITLE: [PDF] Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis | | AUTHOR: World Food Programme/FAO | | Food security to us is mostly related to the political situation.... |
| TITLE: Palestinians reclaim Gaza farmland | | AUTHOR: Philip Rizk in Gaza | | Nearly 18 months after Israel completed its disengagement from illegal settlements in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian farmers and contractors have begun agricultural and academic projects to rehabilitate the area...
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| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access 3/7-3/20 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | Rafah crossing was open for 7 days over the two-week period... The operation of Karni continues to fall below agreements... |
| TITLE: Sewage 'tsunami' kills four in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Al Jazeera | | see also: Pollution Adding to Gaza's woes (3/1/07):
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C411C216-6D79-43E2-A07B-B1F40D6DB976.htm |
| TITLE: World Bank urges opening Rafa border for trade | | AUTHOR: Reuters | | A World Bank report released on Monday called for the opening of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to exports and imports to try to stem the Palestinian territory's economic collapse... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access 2/21-3/6 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The international crossing point at Rafah ...
open just 21% of scheduled days and 11% of scheduled working hours. |
| TITLE: Report: Exports leaving Gaza not enough to restart economy | | AUTHOR: Aluf Benn | | Exports leaving the Gaza Strip through the Karni crossing... do not meet the minimum requirements of the Palestinian economy there. |
| TITLE: Goods trickle through Gaza crossing, but at a price | | AUTHOR: Adam Entous | | The most expensive shipping route in the world may be the 40 km (24 mile) stretch of road between the Israeli port of Ashdod and the Gaza Strip. |
| TITLE: Gaza's fishing industry under siege | | AUTHOR: Rami Almeghari | | ... Israeli gunships have prevented Palestinians from fishing off the Gaza coast. This has severely affected both fishermen and food security for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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| TITLE: WFP: 80 percent of Gazans now rely on food aid | | AUTHOR: Avi Issacharoff | | Eighty percent of Gazans receive food aid from the World Food Program or from UNRWA, WFP spokesperson Kirstie Campbell says, "and without it they are liable to starve."
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| TITLE: Pollution adding to Gaza's woes | | AUTHOR: Nour Odeh | | With international sanctions still choking the struggling Palestinian economy and no political horizon in sight, addressing this menacing problem will have to wait ... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access: Feb. 7-20 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The operation of Karni crossing continues to fall below the AMA target...
Rafah crossing continues to operate sporadically and Erez crossing remains closed for Palestinian workers for over 11 months. |
| TITLE: Soldiers fire on three youths at perimeter fence | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | ... the IDF treats the area as a "death zone," with soldiers firing indiscriminately at everyone who enters. |
| TITLE: IDF prohibits fishing off Gaza coast and abuses fishermen | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | [Since] 25 June 2006, Israel has forbidden boats, including fishing boats, to sail off the Gaza coast. The prohibition has struck a severe blow to the fishing sector... |
| TITLE: Poor Palestinians unable to purchase enough food | | AUTHOR: World Food Programme | | [A]lmost half of the population remains food insecure or is at risk of becoming food insecure...The weakening economy is leading to a marked decline in living standards. |
| TITLE: Gaza power supply under pressure | | AUTHOR: IRIN | | The Gaza Strip in the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to suffer daily power cuts eight months after Israel bombed its only power station... |
| TITLE: Diary of a Palestinian mother - blog | | AUTHOR: Laila El-Haddad | | Life in Gaza.... |
| TITLE: Rafa Today blog | | AUTHOR: Mohammed Omar | | Reports/Photography from Rafah |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access (24 January – 6 February 2007) | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The operation of Rafah crossing continues to be poor. Opening for only 7 hours on 1 day during this period.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Vast increase in Gaza death toll | | AUTHOR: Gaza Strip Situation Report - 6 February 2007 | | Internal violence - Humanitarian concerns - Rafah crossing - Context
At least 33 people were killed, four of them children during three days of clashes...
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| TITLE: [PDF] Statement on Gaza by the United Nations Agencies | | AUTHOR: United Nations Agencies | | We the United Nations Agencies working in the occupied Palestinian
territory are extremely alarmed by the deteriorating security situation in
Gaza.... |
| TITLE: Gaza: No exit | | AUTHOR: Mona El-Farra | | We in Gaza do not travel and are deprived of this basic right, the right of movement.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access (10 - 23 January 2007) | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | Rafah crossing continues to fail to operate continuously: opening hours are extremely restricted and erratic. Karni crossing continues to operate on all scheduled days but for only half the scheduled hours and not at full capacity... |
| TITLE: [PDF] The Humanitarian Monitor oPt |December 2006 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | While the number of Palestinian casualties resulting from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict declined in December, casualties caused by Palestinian internal violence increased to the second highest monthly levels observed in 2006... |
| TITLE: Looking from the side, from Belsen to Gaza | | AUTHOR: John Pilger | | A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders.... |
| TITLE: Israel's 'invisible hand' in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Alan Johnston | | Although Israel withdrew from Gaza more than a year ago, its control over the lives of Palestinians there is in some ways even tighter than before, a new report by an Israeli human rights organisation says.... |
| TITLE: "Disengaged Occupiers - The Legal Status of Gaza" | | AUTHOR: Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement | | in contrast to the rhetoric used to describe the dis- engagement plan, Israel has not relinquished control over Gaza but rather re-moved some elements of control while tightening other significant controls.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Summary monthly statistics 2005 - 2006 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The Protection of Civilians database contains quantifiable data from the Weekly Briefing Notes. These tables cover the period from 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2006... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access (27 December 2006 – 9 January 2007) | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The only significant change in the operations of the crossing points during this reporting period was at Rafah which was open for almost half the scheduled hours. This is the most Rafah has been
operational in a period since 25 June 2006...
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| TITLE: Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank | | AUTHOR: Ilan Pappe | | ...the Israeli 'Summer Rains' will fall down again on the people of Gaza, wreaking havoc and death.
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| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access (13 – 26 December 2006) | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The number of people passing through Rafah crossing increased significantly although the majority were pilgrims and passage ... remains unreliable for regular travellers. |
| TITLE: [PDF] November - The Humanitarian Monitor | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | November |
| TITLE: [PDF] Access and Protection -November | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | In November, the United Nations and participating NGOs appealed for more than US$453 million for emergency humanitarian assistance to meet increasing Palestinian needs in 2007. The largest emergency appeal ever launched in the occupied Palestinian territo |
| TITLE: Life in the Strip – A Rare Inside Look at Gaza | | AUTHOR: Sandip Roi | | listen to an interview with Mohammad Omer:
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=d41cd678e3b003dd5d2807bb6f77cc67
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| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access 15 – 28 November | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The number of travellers passing through Rafah crossing has fallen for the third consecutive period. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Weekly Briefing Notes 11/29-05/12 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | In the Gaza Strip: ? A fragile cease-fire agreed brokered on 26 November held for a second week despite infringements... |
| TITLE: [PDF] UN: LARGEST EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR PALESTINIANS | | AUTHOR: OCHA - CAP | | Twelve UN agencies together with 14 NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory today launched an emergency Appeal for $453.6 million to help meet increasing humanitarian needs... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Weekly Briefing 22-28 November | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | In the Gaza Strip: ? 20 Palestinians were killed and 66 others injured during IDF military operations inside the Gaza Strip. Seven IDF soldiers were also injured, including three soldiers injured by a 57 year-old Palestinian female suicide bomber... |
| TITLE: When Human Rights Watch Equates Aggressor with the Aggrieved | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | We regret that the HRW news item in question smells of politicized, selective human rights advocacy... |
| TITLE: Weekly Report 23 - 29 November | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | 15 Palestinians, 7 of them are civilians (including a child and a woman), were killed by IOF. 13 of the victims were killed by IOF in the northern Gaza Strip. 3 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF in Jabalya town. 49 Palestinians, includi |
| TITLE: [PDF] The Agreement on Movement and Access One Year On | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | [Since] 15 November 2005 the ability of Palestinian residents
of the Gaza Strip to access either the West Bank or the outside world remains extremely limited and the flow of commercial trade is negligible... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Humanitarian Update - October | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The Israeli military operation inside the Gaza Strip continued for the fifth consecutive month with an increase in hostilities leading to a higher number of Palestinian casualties than in September.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Weekly Briefing 15-21 November | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | 12 Palestinians were killed and 41 were injured during IDF military operations in the Gaza Strip. IDF troops entered the Gaza Strip on eight occasions for military operations.... |
| TITLE: Weekly Report 16-22 November | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | since 25 June 2006: 453 Palestinians, 287 of whom are civilians, including 87 children and 28 women, have been killed by IOF... |
| TITLE: Q & A | | AUTHOR: End the Seige on Gaza Campaign | | A month of protest: November 4 – December 2, 2006
Question & Answer Sheet About The Current Situation In The Gaza Strip |
| TITLE: A Call for International actions against the siege on Gaza | | AUTHOR: End the Seige on Gaza Campaign | | The situation in Gaza has reached emergency levels – inadequate water, electricity, and medicine; widespread hunger, poverty, and unemployment; schools and other services out of operation; and constant bombardments and attacks by the Israeli military... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Situation Report 1-8 November | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | |
| TITLE: 02 - 08 November 2006 | | AUTHOR: PCHR Weekly Report | | During the reported period, IOF killed 86 Palestinians, 52 of whom including 16 children, 10 women and two paramedics , are civilians... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Movement and Access 18-31 October | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | There has been no significant change in the access Palestinians have to and from the Gaza Strip over the past two weeks. Rafah continues to be closed on more than 75% of days... |
| TITLE: Palestinian human rights NGOs condemn Beit Hanoun Massacre; call for international investigation | | AUTHOR: Press Release/Palestinian NGOs | | The Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) have committed an appalling act of mass murder in the town of Beit Hanoun today... |
| TITLE: IOF Perpetrate State-sponsored Terrorism in Beit Hanoun | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | PCHR's preliminary investigations indicate that IOF is using it most brutal war machines in the attack on Beit Hanoun.... |
| TITLE: PCHR Condemns the Attack on the People's Voice Radio Station in Gaza City | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | PCHR strongly condemns the attack on the people's voice radio station by unknown gunman on Wednesday, 1 November 2006. The Centre views this as a flagrant violation on freedom of expression, and comes as part of ongoing security chaos plaguing the Occupie |
| TITLE: Israeli Human Rights Violations 19 October - 01 November 2006 | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | IOF have escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property in the OPT.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Implementation of the Agreement on Movement and Access | | AUTHOR: United Nations | | The passage of people to and from the Gaza Strip remains a major issue: Erez remains closed to Palestinian workers and traders and Rafah crossing still suffers from frequent closures... |
| TITLE: [PDF] The Humanitarian Monitor oPt | Sept 2006 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | A war-like situation between the IDF and Palestinian militants continued in the Gaza Strip with the population locked down and a
limited volume of goods trickling in and out of the area... |
| TITLE: Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations Oct 12-18 | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)... |
| TITLE: The Great Experiment | | AUTHOR: Uri Avnery | | IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it?..... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Strip Situation Report October 10 | | AUTHOR: OCHA Humanitarian Update | | The UN?s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, has recently compared the Gaza Strip to a ticking time bomb? and called for immediate action on the humanitarian, political and economic fronts...
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| TITLE: PCHR Condemns Bloody [Hamas/Fatah] Incidents in Gaza | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | Eight Palestinians, including a child, and at least 115 others were injured in bloody incidents that included armed clashes in Gaza City on Sunday, 1 October 2006. PCHR strongly condemns these incidents.... |
| TITLE: Act of Vengeance: Israel's Bombing of the Gaza Power Plant and its Effects | | AUTHOR: B'TSELEM | | One cold, calculated decision, made by Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, and IDF chief-of-staff... |
| TITLE: UN human rights envoy says Gaza a prison for Palestinians | | AUTHOR: Reuters | | Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a prison for Palestinians where life is "intolerable, appalling, tragic" and appears to have thrown away the key... |
| TITLE: [PDF] PCHR Weekly Report: September 14-20 | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | As the international community has remained silent, IOF have continued to wage a full scale offensive on the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Protection of Civilians, September 6-12 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | During the week, IDF soldiers conducted three incursions into the Gaza Strip... |
| TITLE: Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about | | AUTHOR: Donald Macintyre - In Rafah | | Jihad Abu Snaima was just the most recent of more than 37 children and teenagers under 18 killed ..... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Access and Protection June/July 2006 | | AUTHOR: OCHA Humanitarian Update | | The months of June and July were particularly diffi cult for the protection of civilians (222 Palestinians killed) and humanitarian access in the oPt... |
| TITLE: The Forgotten People: The Despair of Gaza One Year After the ‘Disengagement’ | | AUTHOR: Palestinian National Initiative | | Rarely, if ever before has Gaza seen such massive levels of violence, terror and death, such crippling rates of poverty and unemployment, such economic stagnation, and such a stranglehold over all of its border crossings.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Implementation of the Agreement on Movement and Access | | AUTHOR: United Nations | | All indicators used to measure the progress on the implementation of the AMA show a situation worse than on 25 November 2005, the first week of the AMA implementation.... |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza Strip Situation Report, 8/30-9/5 | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | The IDF pulled out of eastern Gaza City following a five day incursion. Twenty (20) Palestinians, including three children, were reported killed during the five days, and more than 33 injured... |
| TITLE: UN warns of Gaza 'breaking point' | | AUTHOR: BBC | | June
Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza have reached breaking point, a senior UN official has said.
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| TITLE: 'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now' | | AUTHOR: Patrick Cockburn | | Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has been div |
| TITLE: Gaza doctors encounter 'unexplained injuries' | | AUTHOR: Donald Macintyre | | Doctors in Gaza are reporting what they say are unexplained injuries among the dead and wounded in operations by the Israeli military, which have killed more than 200 Palestinians in the past nine weeks....
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| TITLE: Gaza's Darkness | | AUTHOR: Gideon Levy | | Gaza has been reoccupied. The world must know this and Israelis must know it, too. It is in its worst condition, ever. Since the abduction of Gilad Shalit, and more so since the outbreak of the Lebanon war, the Israel Defense Forces has been rampaging thr |
| TITLE: Palestinian despair as donors meet | | AUTHOR: Alan Johnston | | Diplomats and aid donors are gathering in the cool and the calm of a conference centre in Stockholm to consider the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian Territories. |
| TITLE: B'Tselem to Defense Minister: Stop using Rafah Crossing to pressure Gaza civilians | | AUTHOR: B'TSELEM | | The organization demanded that the minister order the IDF to cease its illegal policy.... |
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