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End Closure on Gaza demonstration.jpg
The photograph shown with this event: Calling for an end to the closure of Gaza, 26 January 2008.
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Event · Land & rightsFrom June 2007
The blockade of Gaza
الحصار على غزة
Date qualifiedFrom June 2007
Gaza Strip
In June 2007, after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip, Israel tightened its existing restrictions into a land, sea and air blockade, limiting who and what may enter or leave through the crossings it controls.
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The blockade
In June 2007, following Hamas’s military takeover of Gaza, the Israeli authorities significantly intensified movement restrictions that already existed, citing security. The UN’s humanitarian office describes a land, sea and air blockade limiting the number and kinds of people and goods allowed in and out through the Israeli-controlled crossings. Egypt closed its Rafah crossing with Gaza for long periods after 2014.
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- Gaza Strip: The humanitarian impact of 15 years of the blockade - June 2022 ↗
OCHA — occupied Palestinian territory · section: Key facts
Editorial paraphrase · enIn June 2007, after Hamas’s takeover, Israel intensified existing restrictions into a land, sea and air blockade on people and goods; Egypt closed Rafah for long periods after 2014.
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Fifteen years on
In June 2022 the office reported that 1.3 million of Gaza’s 2.1 million people needed food assistance, and that unemployment stood at 46.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
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- Gaza Strip: The humanitarian impact of 15 years of the blockade - June 2022 ↗
OCHA — occupied Palestinian territory · section: Key facts
Editorial paraphrase · en1.3 million of 2.1 million people in Gaza needed food assistance; unemployment was 46.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 (PCBS).
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Gaza Strip: The humanitarian impact of 15 years of the blockade - June 2022
Fact sheet by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory.
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