Gaza

Gaza
An enclave of Palestine in the south west corner of Israel.

Gaza is an extremely densely populated piece of Palestine in the south west corner of Israel.

Drone testing

Israel used Gaza as a testing ground for development of drones.

Water

Israel has been charged with carrying out a "systemic and willful campaign to deny Palestinians access to clean water" in Gaza. It has been called "a comprehensive violation of one of the most basic human rights. It consists of a two-pronged approach: the visible mass destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure, reinforced by invisible policies of closure and occupation, siege and confiscation that block the repair of infrastructure. Together, these tactics prevent the existence of sustainable Palestinian communities, driving people from their land, their homes, and communities." Project censored wrote in October 2014 that "In Gaza, 1.7 million Palestinians currently live without clean drinking water. With no perennial streams and low rainfall, Gaza relies on a single aquifer for all of its fresh water" and predicted that it could become unusably contaminated by 2016.

Gas reserves

Nafeez Ahmed noted that Gaza has large reserves of natural gas, which no doubt play a part in Arab-Israel matters: "The Israel-Palestine conflict is clearly not all about resources. But in an age of expensive energy, competition to dominate regional fossil fuels are increasingly influencing the critical decisions that can inflame war."

 

Events

Event	Description
2018 Gaza Massacre	A massacre of at least 135 unarmed protestors including many women and children, and the wounding of many thousands more by Israeli IDF sniper teams, during the Palestinian 'Great March of Return' and the weeks following its end on 15 May 2018
Gaza War (2008–09)	Three weeks of assault launched against Gaza by Israel, including the use of white phosphorus, leaving over 1000 people dead and over 5000 injured.
Suez Crisis

 

Group

Group
Hamas

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Al Quds Day letter to Tony Blair	letter	3 September 2010	Lauren Booth	Lauren Booth writes a scathing open letter to her brother-in-law, Tony Blair...
Document:Former Labour leader honoured by Palestinian Forum	Article	19 December 2021	Steve Walker	Jeremy Corbyn receives award for ‘remarkable efforts’ to support Palestinians against oppression
Document:Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'	Article	31 July 2014	Oliver Tickell	The UN Security Council stands supine, knowing that the US will veto any attempt to hold Israel and its military accountable. We are not in the "realm of accountability", but precisely where we have always been as far as Israel's crimes are concerned - in the realm of impunity.
Document:Putting Palestinians on a Diet	article		Unknown	About the Israel blockade of Gaza and the manner in which the Western commercially-controlled media contrive to ignore it.
Document:The tears of Gaza must be our tears	speech	5 August 2010	Chris Hedges
Document:What is Left for Palestine?	blog post	17 May 2021	Craig Murray	It was a beautiful day in Glasgow yesterday for the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign demo, and it was great to be able to meet up again with so many magnificent and public-spirited people. It was an especially young crowd, which was excellent, and I was able to meet many Palestinians who drew comfort from the public support at a traumatic time.
File:Attack when the world is not watching.pdf	paper	1 May 2015	Ruben Durante Ekaterina Zhuravskaya	An analysis of the timing of Israeli military attacks on Gaza relative to important breaking news in the US and Europe
File:UN-Gaza-monitor-2010-04.pdf	report	April 2010