State attorney requests an extension from the court to submit its response regarding travel by students from Gaza to the West Bank
July 9, 2012. The state attorney’s office is asking for a three-week extension. If the court accepts the request, it will not leave much time to render a decision on the matter. Read More »

Correction: 18,646 Palestinians whose registered address is in the Gaza Strip live in the West Bank
June 28, 2012. Gisha had previously used a figure provided by the state, indicating that there are 35,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank with registered addresses in the Gaza Strip. The state has recently updated the figure. Read More »

Truck carrying furniture exists Gaza for an expo of Palestinian products in Jordan.
June 28, 2012. The expo will take place from July 4-7 with the participation of six Gaza-based companies, and 50 from the West Bank. Read More »

Kerem Shalom Crossing reopened after being closed yesterday
June 26, 2012. The crossing, used for transfer of goods to and from the Strip, was closed yesterday following mortar fire. Rafah Crossing was opened yesterday. Read More »

Rafah Crossing was partially opened today after being closed since Thursday
June 19, 2012. Egypt says the crossing was closed because of the presidential elections in the country, but the crossing remained closed yesterday and will also be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Read More »

Five years of closure on Gaza: Gaza is more opened up towards the outside world, yet still cut off from the West Bank and Israel
June 10, 2012. To mark five years of closure on Gaza, Gisha issued two new publications providing an updated analysis of the closure and calling attention to the “separation policy” between Gaza and the West Bank. Read More »

Gaza’s unemployment rate reaches 31.5%
May 29, 2012. The quarterly report of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicates that unemployment among women who participate in the work force in Gaza is 46.5%. Read More »

For the first time in 12 years the Israeli Supreme Court orders military to reconsider application of Gaza-West Bank student ban
May 23, 2012: In an earlier petition on the same issue, the court accepted the state’s position, but this time the court decided to instruct the state to explain, within 45 days, why it refuses to allow the students to travel and to reconsider its position with regard to four of them. Read More »

Gaza merchant: ‘You can’t just buy products without manufacturing and selling’
May 21, 2012. Abed Al Rauf Abu Safar writes for Ynet about the restrictions imposed on sale of goods from Gaza to Israel and the West Bank and how this impacts both residents of the Gaza Strip and Israelis. Read More »

Professor Yafa Zilbershatz on Gaza: “We cannot shake it off and say ‘we’re out, we’re gone, we have no obligations’.
May 17, 2012. Professsor Zilbershatz gave an interview on the Israeli television program London and Kirshenbaum and criticized the proposition made by the minister for environmental protection to cut off power supply to the Gaza Strip. Journalist Aviv Lavie also opposes the suggestion. Read More »

Minister Erdan proposes to cut power supply to the Gaza Strip. Is he not aware of the state’s position?
May 13, 2012. Israel acknowledged its obligation to provide electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip back in 2007 and the Supreme Court found that Israel has a duty to supply electricity to Gaza. Harming the health and lives of residents of the Gaza Strip cannot be the solution to Israel’s electricity problems. Read More »

How do you lower the price of tomatoes in Israel? Market tomatoes from Gaza
May 7, 2012. A kilogram of tomatoes costs 3 shekels (79 cents) in Gaza versus 16 shekels ($ 4.21) in Israel. Chairman of the Israeli Vegetable Growers Association: Israeli farmers do not oppose the marketing of tomatoes from Gaza in Israel. Read More »

Major General Dangot: The government’s policy is intended to create a separation between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
May 6, 2012. Dangot opposed allowing prisoners from the Gaza Strip to receive family visits and said the purpose of the separation policy is to put pressure on the Hamas regime. Read More »

Gisha Executive Director, Sari Bashi, participated in an online symposium on the functional approach to the law of occupation
May 3, 2012, the symposium was hosted by legal blog Opinio Juris. Gisha applied the functional approach in its most recent position paper – Scale of Control. Read More »