🇵🇸 Prior to current crisis, decades-long blockade hollowed Gaza’s economy, leaving 80% of population dependent on international aid | UNCTAD – 25/10/2023

Inflation, a shrinking fiscal space, a decline in foreign aid and the build-up of debt kept the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory below its 2019 pre-pandemic level.

Against a backdrop of heightened political tensions, deepening dependency on the occupying Power and a stalled peace process, the Palestinian economy continued to operate below potential in 2022 as other persistent challenges intensified.

These include loss of land and natural resources to Israeli settlements, endemic poverty, a shrinking fiscal space, declining foreign aid and the build-up of public and private debt.

How Israel’s 10-Year Blockade Brought Gaza to the Brink of Collapse | The Nation - 2017

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Prior to current crisis, decades-long blockade hollowed Gaza’s economy, leaving 80% of population dependent on international aid | UNCTAD – #Gaza #Economy #Report #OPT

https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/tdbex74d2_en.pdf

🇵🇸 Builder for Secret U.S. Base in Israel Also Built Illegal Settlement – 03/11/2023

THE US military recent $35 million contract to do construction at its secret base in Israel went to a joint venture that includes an American firm and an Israeli one. The Israeli company, Y.D. Ashush Infrastructure, has been involved in many large-scale infrastructure and public works projects — including building an illegal settlement in occupied Palestinian territory.

In a section on its website touting its projects, Ashush mentions construction work in the settlement of Leshem. Originally planned to include nearly 700 homes, Leshem was constructed in the 2010s as a satellite of Alei Zahav, a settlement established in 1982. 

U.S. Quietly Pushes Ahead Secret Military Base in Israel, Near Gaza –27/10/2023


#Palestine #OPT #Israel #US #Base512 #Colonisation

🇵🇸 Diaries of the war on Gaza | The Take

We’ve been receiving voice notes from our journalists in Gaza for just over a month, since Israel’s war on Gaza began following Hamas’s attack on October 7. They’ve endured a shortage of water, fuel, electricity, and food during constant Israeli bombardment. Today, what it means to report from Gaza one month into the war. 

In this episode: 
Youmna ElSayed, Al Jazeera Gaza Correspondent
Safwat al Kahlout, Al Jazeera Journalist

#Palestine #Gaza #Journalist
#WarCrimes #Genocide #audio #podcast #Testimonies
08/11/2023

🇵🇸 What is the Function of Western Media in Israeli Propaganda? | Ramzy Baroud

US Western mainstream media is far more functional to Israeli propaganda than Israel’s own media. Here is why

Ramzy Baroud is the editor of Palestine Chronicle , he contributes to many other ME medias and has covered Palestine for decades

Ramzy Baroud: Politics for the People – https://ramzybaroud.net/

In 2022 Ramzy co-edited a book with Ilan Pappé

OUR VISION FOR LIBERATION: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out – CLARITY PRESS –

#Palestine #Hasbara #Media #Propaganda #WesternMedia #MassMedia #Gaza #WarCrimes #Genocide #Narative #Book #RamzyBaroud

🇵🇸 Book : OUR VISION FOR LIBERATION: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out | Ramzy Baroud - 2022

Co-edited by Ilan Pappe and Ramzy Baroud, Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out aims to challenge several strata of the current Palestine discourse that have led to the present dead end: the American pro-Israel political discourse, the Israeli colonial discourse, the Arab discourse of purported normalization, and the defunct discourse of the Palestinian factions. None promote justice, none have brought resolution; none bode well for any of the parties involved.

#Palestine #Book #RamzyBaroud #IlanPappé #Peace

🇵🇸 Every second is a struggle | The Electronic Intifada –

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
09/11/2023

🇵🇸 Maha Hussaini, Gaza corresponded for Middle East Eye, has been documenting the dire situation in the region for the past month. She left her home with no idea of what remains of it, her neighbourhood has since been carpet bombed. The feeling of home has become a distant memory for her.

Unsure of how long this situation will last, Maha describes how she and others believe that each day may be their last. The scarcity of basic necessities such as food and water has become overwhelming. She fears that she won't be able to provide food for her family, as money has become useless in Gaza

Source : War Diaries Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #WarCrimes #Testimonies
08/11/2023

🇵🇸 Israel holding 750 families in Hebron under curfew for a month, in the form of collective punishment | Btselem

Since the war broke out on 7 October 2023, the military has been imposing a curfew on 11 neighborhoods in Area H2 in Hebron. Stores and businesses have been shut down and thousands of people, amounting to about 750 families, are imprisoned at home. Only after two weeks of full #curfew, on 21 October 2023, did the military permit residents to leave home on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening.

There is no justification for keeping hundreds of people under a blanket movement ban, locked up at home for weeks on end. Israel is taking advantage of the fact that local and international attention is currently diverted from the #WestBank to impose far-reaching measures that constitute collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law. This conduct is integral to Israel’s #apartheid regime, which is at its most flagrant in #Hebron.

🇵🇸 5 Broken Cameras: Growing up with the Bil'in Resistance — Visualizing Palestine – 2011
#Palestine #Occupation #Colonisation #Documentary #Testimonies

🇵🇸 5 Broken Cameras محطمة   كاميرات   خمس  Khamas Kamīrāt | 2011

An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the film was assembled by Burnat and Israeli co-director Guy Davidi. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost

#Palestine #Occupation #Colonisation #Documentary #Testimonies #Agriculture #OliveCulture

🇵🇸 Thousands of Palestinians flee to south Gaza

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been moving south from northern Gaza.They are fleeing on foot carrying whatever they can

But as Alan Fisher reports, many fear they will never be able to return to their homes.

Source : Al Jazeera
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
#Documentary #NewNakba #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #ForcedDisplacement
10/11/2023

Enam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip. 10.11.23

🇵🇸 Wafa News Agency - English (@WAFANewsEnglish): "Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN-OCHA: "If there is a hell on earth, it is the north of Gaza... It is a life of fear by day and darkness at night and what do you tell your children in such a situation, that the fire they see in the sky is out to kill them?"" | nitter –

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
10/11/2023