In mid-June 2007, Israel tightened their closure policy on the Gaza Strip, as part of a decade’s long effort to control the economy of Gaza and the movement of its people. It must be emphasized that this was just the latest effort by Israel to issue a form of collective punishment against the Gaza Strip.
In 2006, in spite of the Agreement on Movement and Access, which entered into force on 25 November 2005, Israel continued to tighten its restrictions on the movement of people and goods from and to the Gaza Strip, further pursuing a policy begun in 1991. This included closing the border crossing to Egypt. Their efforts escalated further into a total closure in mid-June 2007, so, for five years, this most extreme form of closure has been applied to the so-called ‘hostile entity’ that is the Gaza Strip, cutting off 1.7 million individuals from the outside world.
Full Report - 8 pages
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/2012/closure%20report13-6.pdf
Israel’s illegal closure of the Gaza Strip
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/2012/Closure%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20May%202012.pdf
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