Israeli army snipers shot dead at least nine Palestinian protesters, including a journalist and a 14-year-old boy, and wounded at least 300 others near the Gaza border fence with Israel on Friday, April 6, during the eighth day of the “Great March of Return.” Palestinian health officials confirmed that among those killed was journalist Yasser…
“Israel sees Palestinian life as cheap and any form of Palestinian protest as illegitimate,” the head of the Joint List charged in an interview on Monday, April 2. MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), speaking on Channel 10’s morning program about the previous Friday’s massacre along the Gaza border, said, “Look at how most of the Israeli public views…
One thousand Israelis protested in Tel Aviv Sunday evening, April 1, in front of the party headquarters of the Likud, which leads the governmental coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding an end to the escalation of violence along the Gaza border and calling for a peace process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tens of thousands of…
Only Christians over the age of 55 are being allowed to enter Israel from the Gaza Strip to pray at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher during Easter, a document issued by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has stipulated. According to Christian clergy in Gaza, who say the limitations are unjustified,…
By Friday evening, March 30, the Palestinian Ministry of Health had confirmed the death of 16 Palestinians and the injury of 1,416 civilians, as a result of Israeli gunfire and crowd dispersal measures during the course of the Great Return March in Gaza. The march, which had been organized as a peaceful protest by activists…
Israel’s Supreme Court recently held an urgent hearing on a petition filed by the NGO “Gisha” – The Legal Center for the Freedom of Movement – on behalf of employees of the Gaza branch of “Right to Play,” an international humanitarian organization that promotes treatment and rehabilitation of children facing adversity through educational play. The…
A new report by Gisha – The Legal Center for Freedom of Movement – entitled 2017: Tightening of the Closure, summarizes the measures imposed by Israel during the past year to further limit the movement of people to and from the Gaza Strip via the Erez Crossing. The report includes new or intensified measures, introduced…
After more than six months during which Israel sold and supplied the Gaza Strip with only about 60 percent of the electricity it has the capacity to transfer on the existing power grid – there is finally an end in sight to the fabricated electricity crisis. On June 11, 2017, Israel’s Security Cabinet decided to…
Unemployment in Gaza Strip continues to rise and reached 46.6% in the third quarter of 2017, the highest it has been since Israel’s deadly Operation Protective Edge in 2014. This unemployment rate reflects the increasing dearth of opportunities for work in Gaza, in particular for young people, and the diminishing hope for building a better…
In the second quarter of this year, there was a dramatic deterioration in the employment situation in Gaza, the most serious data since the end of Israel’s brutal Operation Protective Edge. Unemployment in the Gaza Strip rose to 44% compared to 41.1% in the first quarter. Among women it increased from 67.4% to 71.5%, while…