🇵🇸 Putting Palestinians "On a Diet": Israel's Siege & Blockade of Gaza | IMEU – 2014
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
As noted by the UN and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, this amounts to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. (Read the article for more on the legal status of the blockade and siege.)
#Gaza #Blockade #UN #Hamas #InternationalLaw #HR #EconomicWarfare #Siege #CollectivePunishement #IMEU
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
As noted by the UN and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, this amounts to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. (Read the article for more on the legal status of the blockade and siege.)
#Gaza #Blockade #UN #Hamas #InternationalLaw #HR #EconomicWarfare #Siege #CollectivePunishement #IMEU
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🇵🇸 Turning Point: Gaza Blockade
On 26 January 2006, a significant shift in the balance of power began.
The surprise triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections shattered four decades of Fatah's rule, split the West Bank and Gaza between the groups and caused the indefinite blockade of Gaza.
In this episode of MEE’s history explainer series Turning Point, we take a look at how this moment led to Israel's implementation of a land, air, and naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. A siege confining 2.2 million Palestinians in the world's largest "open-air prison".
#Palestine #Gaza #Fatah #Hamas #Elections #Blockade #GazaBlockade
On 26 January 2006, a significant shift in the balance of power began.
The surprise triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections shattered four decades of Fatah's rule, split the West Bank and Gaza between the groups and caused the indefinite blockade of Gaza.
In this episode of MEE’s history explainer series Turning Point, we take a look at how this moment led to Israel's implementation of a land, air, and naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. A siege confining 2.2 million Palestinians in the world's largest "open-air prison".
#Palestine #Gaza #Fatah #Hamas #Elections #Blockade #GazaBlockade
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🇵🇸 Israel Weaponising Water in Palestine | Al Jazeera Documentary - July 2023
Decades of Israeli occupation have left Palestinians struggling to access clean water. Israel controls a majority of the freshwater resources in the occupied West Bank. And in Gaza, its 16-year blockade and military operations have had a devastating effect on the water supply. Monitoring groups say about 97 percent of the water supply in Gaza is contaminated and unfit for human consumption.
Gaza’s only freshwater source, the Coastal Aquifer, cannot meet demand and has been depleted by overextraction and contaminated by sewage. Rising temperatures and sea levels are only making life more difficult, while in Israel, residents do not have to worry about the taps running dry. People and Power examines this growing disparity.
#Gaza #Blockade #Water #CoastalAquifer #Apartheid #freshwater #Documetary
July 2023
Decades of Israeli occupation have left Palestinians struggling to access clean water. Israel controls a majority of the freshwater resources in the occupied West Bank. And in Gaza, its 16-year blockade and military operations have had a devastating effect on the water supply. Monitoring groups say about 97 percent of the water supply in Gaza is contaminated and unfit for human consumption.
Gaza’s only freshwater source, the Coastal Aquifer, cannot meet demand and has been depleted by overextraction and contaminated by sewage. Rising temperatures and sea levels are only making life more difficult, while in Israel, residents do not have to worry about the taps running dry. People and Power examines this growing disparity.
#Gaza #Blockade #Water #CoastalAquifer #Apartheid #freshwater #Documetary
July 2023