Press statement from Gaza Community Mental Health Programme on Jan. 22:
"Israel has imposed a severe siege on the Gaza Strip since Hamas' winning of the parliamentary elections in January, 2006. Furthermore, Israel has tightened this siege following Hamas military domination over the Gaza Strip in June, 2007 when Israel declared that the Gaza Strip is an enemy entity." Read the statement >
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Since the 2006 Palestinian Parliamentary elections, Israel and the United States have led a campaign of international sanctions against Hamas and the elected Palestinian government. This campaign was increased since June, 2007 when Hamas assumed control of Gaza. Since then, Gaza has been almost completely cut off from the outside world.
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Important Reports
- Gaza Humanitarian Situation Reports, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Narratives Under Siege, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
- Vanity Fair: The Gaza Bombshell (4/08, HTML)
- The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion, Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid (3/08, PDF 1.72 MB)
- Dignity Denied in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, International Committee of the Red Cross (12/07, HTML)
- The Closure of the Gaza Strip: The Economic and Humanitarian Consequences, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (12/07, PDF 1.15 MB)
- Isolation of Gaza must end, say international NGOs, Association of International Development Agencies (11/07, PDF 164 KB)
- The Gaza Strip – One Big Prison, B’tselem (9/07, PDF 2.77 MB)
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- Facts about Israel's fuel cuts to Gaza
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- U.S. Stymies Security Council Action on Gaza
- The siege of Gaza can only breed violence
- Hamas Blows a Hole in Bush’s Plans
- Humanitarian impact of Israel's blockade of Gaza
- Grim statistics on water
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- PCHR Calls On the International Community to Preve...
- Al-Haq: End the Siege of the Gaza Strip
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- Gaza: An Israeli Call for Urgent Action
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