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Gaza’s future: 15 facts that can’t be ignored
A woman in Gaza. Photo: Karl Schembri “I’ve been calling to advance a “civilian separation” program for years: [Israel will] stop providing electricity, water, fuel, food and all other products. Gaza...
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Why Israel should allow construction materials to enter Gaza
Those who really want construction materials in the quantities required for building tunnels will manage to get them. Photo: Karl Schembri Since the start of Operation Protective Edge, many people have...
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What the MFA got wrong on Gaza
Clear military target? Photo: Karl Schembri In parallel to the fighting that rages on with devastating force in Gaza and Israel, there is another fierce battle being fought – this one over narrative....
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Former defense minister gives the reason for the closure: “Inertia”
Not something “smart intelligent people” do. Meridor. There is mounting evidence indicating that Israel’s policy toward Gaza is changing. Last week, for the first time since 2007, Israel allowed...
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The tale of a fish from Gaza
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Fish from Gaza Last Saturday was a holiday in Ramallah: 26 years since the Palestinians declared independence. Independence has yet to arrive, but in a fish shop in...
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Gaza Access and Movement: 2014 Summary
Building in Gaza. Photo: Karl Schembri Pessimists will rightly say that 2014 was the worst in memory for residents of Gaza. Optimists might say that 2014 was the first year in which there was a flicker...
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What Gaza needs
The reconstruction of Gaza is advancing at a snail’s pace; unemployment is higher than 40%. Building in Gaza (Photo: Karl Schembri). For the full position paper Exactly six months ago, on August 26,...
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Pressing play on a paused economy
Industries whose representatives were interviewed for the study. From right to left, top to bottom: high-tech, furniture, agriculture, textile, food processing. Photos: Gisha On November 6, 2014, a...
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The Ministry of Economic Defense
There is zero reference to security in the entire response. Photo: Eman Mohammed After years of a complete ban, Israel began allowing transit of goods produced and grown in Gaza in the West Bank in...
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Protective Edge: One year later – too little has changed
Light years away from the reconstruction many had hoped for. Photo: Gisha A year has passed since the first shot of Operation Protective Edge was fired, and the Gaza Strip remains in ruins, light years...
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Gaza Fact Check: 10 myths for 10 years of disengagement
One initial and explicit goal of the Gaza closure was economic warfare; Israel enacted and still enacts a set of economic restrictions on the Strip that severely obstruct and undermine economic...
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Marketing of furniture from Gaza in Israel permitted – wood to the make the...
Why would Hamas activists raid lumber stocks in the Gaza Strip specifically? Photo: Gene Han, flickr. CC BY-NC 2.0 About a month ago, Israel announced it would allow the sale of scrap metal, furniture...
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Wood is also essential for reconstruction
Wood is of course critical for the furniture sector. Photo: Eman Mohammed The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent around an update today about Tamer Barim, a resident of Gaza who was arrested on...
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COGAT’s PR is only in English – what’s he saying and to whom?
The figures also fail to mention what comes under the “other” rubric, or what constitutes “humanitarian”. The photo is taken from COGAT’s Twitter page On November 15, 2015, this picture was posted to...
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The good news: The cabinet talked about the policy on Gaza. The bad news: No...
Coming to terms with reality? Naftali Bennett at the INSS conference Something strange happened on the Israeli political scene last week. After Education Minister Naftali Bennett wondered at the INSS...
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Checking the “dual-use” list twice
After Operation Protective Edge in 2014, tens of thousands rendered homeless remained in shelters run by the United Nations. Photo: Eduardo Soteras Jalil Until only six years ago, coriander was banned...
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The long road to Gaza
Kerem Shalom is currently the only crossing for transport of goods to and from Gaza and spans an area of 600 dunam (~150 acres). Photo: Eman Mohamed The public uproar around Road 232, the sole route...
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Groundhog Day in Gaza
Gaza, July 2014. Photo by Eman Mohammed Noam Rabinovich In the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day,” the star finds himself in a time loop in which he wakes up again and again to find it’s the same day. Israel...
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The dual use list finally gets published but it’s the opposite of useful
A truck passing through Kerem Shalom Crossing to Gaza. Photo: Gisha. Following a prolonged legal battle and concerted advocacy, including alongside other Israeli and international organizations, the...
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Solar power to the people
Solar panels on a rooftop in Gaza. Given the troubled state of Gaza’s existing power grid and a chronic lack of electricity, alternative methods of producing energy could be a literal lifeline for the...
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