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Israel imposes new fuel restrictions on Gaza

Gaza City
2 July 2013

The only crossing for commercial goods between Israel and Gaza has been closed five times since the end of February.

Israel's siege tips Gaza waste management to crisis point

Eva Bartlett
Gaza City
1 April 2013

Gaza municipality uses donkey carts to collect 350 tons of waste daily.

Will the siege on Gaza finally be lifted?

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
26 November 2012

Hamas and Israel are supposed to negotiate the opening of crossings under the terms of their ceasefire accord.

Israel forces mother to bring up children by phone

Ramallah
5 November 2012

Israeli policy has split countless Palestinian spouses while parents have been forcibly separated from their children.

Israel's starvation diet for Gaza

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
24 October 2012

Recently released documents reveal that Israel deliberately allowed much less food than was previously thought to have been imported into Gaza.

Palestinians risk death to work without permits in Israel

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ramallah
26 September 2012
As Israel dismantles Gaza’s economy, job opportunities also shrink for the West Bank’s Palestinians.

Siege leaves 80 percent of Gaza's factories shut

Eva Bartlett
Jabaliya
10 September 2012
Most of Gaza’s industrial factories have closed and remained shut since Israel sealed the borders and devastated the export economy beginning in 2006.

Israel denies Palestinians in Gaza right to study in West Bank

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
27 June 2012
For twelve years Israel has imposed sweeping bans on Palestinians wanting to travel from Gaza to the West Bank for education.

Frustration simmers over Egypt-Gaza border closure

Jared Malsin
11 August 2011
Palestinians in Gaza are still waiting for Egypt’s promise to ease the closure of Rafah crossing to materialize.
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