Collective punishment continues
February 18, 2020. Israel continues to collectively punish Gaza residents. On Saturday, COGAT again announced that “civilian measures” that it had planned to implement were cancelled as punishment for rocket fire launched from the Strip.
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Updates
2020
Israel reduces Gaza’s “fishing zone” again in act of collective punishment
February 6, 2020. Yesterday COGAT announced that as of 16:00 that day, fishermen’s access to Gaza’s sea space would be limited to a distance of up to ten nautical miles.
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Israel announces a freeze to all “easings”
February 3, 2020. The decision to freeze the implementation of the various measures, accompanied by the portrayal of these measures as “easings” or “gestures,” is a familiar pattern of collective punishment.
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Gisha’s statement on the Middle East Peace Plan
January 29, 2020. The “peace plan” presented yesterday in Washington D.C. aims to make permanent a reality of fragmentation, isolation and division in the occupied Palestinian territory. Further entrenching the dispossession of Palestinians and perpetuating the occupation is a recipe for ongoing conflict, not peace.
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Severe damage to crops in Gaza following aerial herbicide spraying by Israel
January 28, 2020. Aerial spraying conducted between January 14 and 16 has damaged crops as far as one kilometer away from Gaza’s perimeter fence, causing serious financial losses for farmers in the Strip.
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Israel resumes aerial herbicide spraying along Gaza’s perimeter fence; Gisha, Adalah and Al Mezan demand an immediate halt to the destructive measure
January 20, 2020. For three consecutive days, Israeli crop-duster planes conducted aerial herbicide spraying over the fence separating Gaza and Israel. Gisha, Adalah and Al Mezan demand that Israel halt the illegal practice immediately.
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Gaza Strip Map
January 9, 2020. A new and updated map published by Gisha emphasizes the spatial dimensions of Israel’s ongoing control over Gaza, and the means by which Israel denies movement of people and goods. The map includes data and background on the crossing points with Israel and Egypt, the “fishing zone” enforced by Israel in Gaza’s territorial waters, and the “buffer zone” it imposes along the barrier separating Gaza from Israel.
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Gisha reaffirms that the rights of Palestinians in Gaza must not be used as bargaining chips in political barter
January 1, 2020. Israel’s security cabinet convened today to discuss what has been portrayed in various media outlets as “civilian easings,” that is, measures to be implemented by Israel as part of a “settlement” or long-term ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Improving the living conditions of Gaza’s two million residents, half of whom are children, is an urgent imperative but “easings” and “gestures” are nowhere near enough.
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2019
Israel reverses latest punitive reduction of Gaza’s fishing zone, but the frequent, arbitrary changes continue to harm Gaza’s fishermen
December 30, 2019. On December 24, Israel restored the fishing zone to its previous demarcation, up to a maximal distance of 15 nautical miles off shore in a southern section of the Strip.
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COGAT’s Christmas Flip-flop
December 23, 2019. Just three days ahead of Christmas, after weeks of uncertainty and contradictory responses, COGAT announced Israel will issue permits for Gaza Christians to travel to the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
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Israel reduces Gaza’s fishing zone as punitive measure
December 19, 2019. COGAT announced this morning that the fishing zone enforced by Israel off Gaza’s coast would again be reduced from 15 to 10 nautical miles “until further notice.”
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After criticism over full ban, COGAT announces 500-permit quota for Gaza Christians to visit West Bank and east Jerusalem over Christmas, then withdraws the quota later the same day
December 16, 2019. Yesterday, COGAT published a quota of 500 travel permits for Christian residents of the Gaza Strip to visit family and holy sites in the West Bank and east Jerusalem over Christmas. Only hours later, the updated permit quota disappeared from COGAT’s website.
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COGAT publishes its quotas of “holiday permits” for Palestinian Christians: This Christmas, travel between Gaza and the West Bank is barred entirely
December 12, 2019. With less than two weeks until Christmas, the permit quotas for Palestinian Christians to travel this Christmas bar travel between Gaza and the West Bank.
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With Christmas approaching, Israel has yet to inform Christians from Gaza if they will be able to spend the holiday with family
December 11, 2019. With only a couple of weeks until Christmas, and despite Gisha’s efforts to prompt the defense ministry to publish its quota of “holiday permits,” the quota has yet to be published.
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High Court rules in favor of Gisha, Adalah and Al Mezan in petition to return boats seized by Israel from Gaza fishermen: “The description of the boats’ condition suggests indifference to their fate”
December 1, 2019. The boats were seized from Gaza fishermen and held by Israel for months, even years, before being returned to the Strip following the petition by the three human rights organizations.
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