Five Years of Blockade: The Humanitarian Situation
Saturday, 16 June 2012, 7:55 pm
Press Release: OCHA
Five Years of Blockade: The Humanitarian Situation
in the Gaza Strip | June 201214/06/12
The
intensified blockade on the Gaza Strip imposed on June 2007
is beginning its sixth year.
The blockade, imposed by
Israel following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June 2007,
intensified the closure applied since the early 1990s. It is
a denial of basic human rights in contravention of
international law and amounts to collective punishment.
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_blockade_factsheet_june_2012_english.pdf
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