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Background Gaza Siege Brutal siege in Gaza
Israel started to implement a very suffocating collective punishment policy against Palestinians in the occupied lands long ago. As Hamas movement came to office early in 2005; Israelis started to impose a siege by financial boycott then total closure that prevented the basics into Gaza.
Gaza Strip make turned to be a catastrophic zone of the first degree, as 1.5 million citizens live under the effect of the siege. The movement of people and goods from and to the strip is paralyzed; all commercial transactions have been stopped in a manner that contradicts all agreements, intents, commitments and accords that Israeli occupation took upon itself with international organizations to facilitate the movement of goods and people within and outside Palestinian territories. barbedwire-rafah2.jpg
Israel started to implement a very suffocating collective punishment policy against Palestinians in the occupied lands long ago. As Hamas movement came to office early in 2005; Israelis started to impose a siege by financial boycott then total closure that prevented the basics into Gaza.
Gaza Strip make turned to be a catastrophic zone of the first degree, as 1.5 million citizens live under the effect of the siege. The movement of people and goods from and to the strip is paralyzed; all commercial transactions have been stopped in a manner that contradicts all agreements, intents, commitments and accords that Israeli occupation took upon itself with international organizations to facilitate the movement of goods and people within and outside Palestinian territories.
The movement of products exchange from and through Israel has been greatly affected. Since the start of the siege, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) didn't allow any raw materials into the Gaza Strip. Ordinary farmers and factories' owners stopped exporting products and the economy faced great collapse.
More than 85% of Gazans live under poverty line. Estimates of that rate increased from 35% by the end of 2006 to 67% by the end of October 2007. The percentage of unemployment reached 65%.
Direct monthly losses as a result of the siege are estimated at 48 million US$, which are spread as follows: The industrial sector 16 million US$ namely, 34% of the total, agriculture 10 million US$, 20% of the total, trade, services and fishing 22 million US$, 45% of the total.
