occupied Palestinian territory: Rafah Crossing has been closed for five...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryAugust 8, 2017. Today, five months have passed since the last time Rafah Crossing was opened to people exiting from the Gaza Strip. This is the...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: After five months: Rafah Crossing opens for...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryAugust 17, 2017. Rafah Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, was opened yesterday for travel in both directions. About 30,000 people who meet...
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occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza in Numbers (August 2017)
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryEXIT OF GOODSSince November 2014, Israel has allowed limited sale of Gaza-grown and produced goods in the West Bank. Since March 2015, Israel has...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Rafah Crossing open for nine days in November
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryNovember 30, 2016. Rafah Crossing was open for nine days over the course of November. Exit was allowed on seven of these days, helping to reduce the...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Gaza cancer patients protest the "security...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryDecember 28, 2016. Dozens of women cancer patients held a protest in front of the Gaza-based offices of the Palestinian Civil Affairs Committee last...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: What did the UN Security Council resolution...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryBy Tania HaryThe responses by Israel’s government to the United Nations Security Council resolution passed late Friday provide all the evidence one...
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occupied Palestinian territory: Hand on the Switch January 2017: Who’s...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryIntroductionOn Friday, May 6, 2016, a fire broke out in the alHindi home in a-Shati Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip burning it to the ground. Three of...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Israeli planes again spray herbicides near...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryJanuary 23, 2017. Early on the morning of January 23, civilian planes hired by the Israeli air force, sprayed herbicides near the fence that...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Drop of 44% in exits from Gaza in January
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryFebruary 23, 2017. The number of exits of Palestinians through Erez Crossing in January 2017 has decreased by 44% compared to January 2016. A total...
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occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza in Numbers (March 2017)
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryExit of goodsSince November 2014, Israel has allowed limited sale of Gaza-grown and produced goods in the West Bank. Since March 2015, Israel has...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Gisha spokesperson: The public understands...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryMarch 2, 2017. Gisha spokesperson, Shai Grunberg, appeared on “London et Kirshenbaum” on Israeli television Channel 10, and spoke about the results...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Access to Erez Crossing still being denied by...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryApril 2, 2017. The Hamas-controlled checkpoint known as 4-4, en route to Erez Crossing in Gaza, remains almost completely closed to movement out of...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Hamas authorities reverse restrictions on...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryApril 9, 2017. The Hamas-controlled checkpoint known as 4-4 has been reopened to all permit-holders. Movement through the checkpoint has been...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Electricity supply in Gaza Strip reduced to...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryApril 19, 2017. Gaza’s sole power plant shut down on Saturday night and has not renewed operations since. Funds donated by Qatar and Turkey, which...
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occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza in Numbers (May 2017)
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryExit of goodsSince November 2014, Israel has allowed limited sale of Gaza-grown and produced goods in the West Bank. Since March 2015, Israel has...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: At the initiative of Gisha, civil society...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryJune 14, 2017. At the initiative of Gisha, a coalition of 16 civil society organizations sent an urgent letter yesterday to the attorney general,...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Gaza’s fishing zone has been reduced, again
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryOn Tuesday (June 27), Israel announced it would reduce the fishing zone in southern Gaza back to six nautical miles off the coast. The fishing zone...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Unemployment in Gaza in early 2017: Over 40%
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryJuly 4, 2017. Unemployment in the Gaza Strip rose by about half a percent during the first quarter of 2017, reaching 41.1%. The unemployment rate in...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Electricity in Gaza at an all-time low: Only...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryJuly 9, 2017. The electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached a dangerous all-time-low: On top of reductions to the volume of electricity sold...
View Articleoccupied Palestinian territory: Shedding Legal Light on the Gaza Electricity...
Source: GishaCountry: occupied Palestinian territoryBy: Julie Webb-PullmanThe bowing of Israeli occupation authorities to the request of the Palestinian Authority to further reduce energy supplies does...
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