At the start of Gaza's winter export season which began today, Gisha raises a question for the Israeli Defense Ministry: Why are residents of Gaza banned from transferring goods to their natural markets in Israel and the West Bank?
A select number of farmers in Gaza are beginning to export flowers, peppers, tomatoes and strawberries to Europe. Two truckloads of strawberries were permitted to leave Gaza today as part of an exception to the ban on export that Israel has imposed since June 2007. Each year since then, Israel has allowed a few truckloads of winter agricultural produce to leave Gaza as part of a project sponsored by the Netherlands.
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http://reliefweb.int/node/461536
For up-to-date information on the Gaza closure, see Gisha's Gaza Cheat Sheet
http://www.gisha.org/UserFiles/File/publications/Info_Gaza_Eng.pdf
For graphs detailing outgoing goods from Gaza:
http://www.gisha.org/graph.asp?lang_id=en&p_id=903
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