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Thursday, November 3, 2011

David Poort / Al Jazeera: History of Israeli blockade on Gaza

With the recent agreement to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Israel may have lost one of its key justifications for its blockade against the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli policy of actively laying siege to the territory, tacitly supported by Egypt under the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak, has been in place since Hamas violently took over power from Fatah in 2007 after it had won elections a year earlier.

The blockade has taken on many shapes and forms over the years. It has been tightened, eased and tightened again, but the changes made - usually a result of international pressure - have been largely cosmetic.

There is no shortage of food in Gaza [though food insecurity is high] and recent developments have even triggered what could be described as a 'construction boom'.

Full Article
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/10/20111030172356990380.html

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