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 »

Fuel shortage continues: only 20% of commercial trucks in Gaza operated today
April 29, 2012: The Palestinian Energy Authority has not provided diesel to the Association of Private Transportation Companies in Gaza and therefore most trucks did not transport goods from Kerem Shalom Crossing. Read More »

The Israeli Population and Immigration Authority has agreed to accept power of attorney forms sent by fax from Israelis who live in the Gaza Strip.
April 25, 2012. The Population and Immigration Authority has thus far refused to accept power of attorney forms sent by fax and in so doing prevented lawyers in Israel from providing legal assistance to Israeli citizens living in the Gaza Strip. Read More »

The Gaza power station is in the process of being rehabilitated, meanwhile the fuel shortage continues
April 18, 2012. The Islamic Development Bank donated four transformers to help upgrade the Gaza power station. In the meantime, the fuel shortage continues and electricity is supplied in cycles of eight hours of regular power supply followed by eight-hour blackouts. Read More »

Israel’s Supreme Court sets precedent: A person may be removed to the Gaza Strip based on criminal allegations
April 5, 2012. The Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by Gisha to prevent the removal of a Palestinian prisoner to the Gaza Strip. Until now, the Israel Prison Service has only removed Palestinians according to security preclusions or in cases where the individuals in questions were unable to convince the court that they had maintained a “center-of-life” in the West Bank for many years. Read More »

Israel prevents hairstylists and students traveling out of Gaza
March 25, 2012. They were denied permission to leave the Strip on the grounds that they are not exceptional humanitarian cases – this despite the fact that merchants are allowed to travel from Gaza to the West Bank. Read More »

Israel renews permission for one truckload of tomatoes to be exported from Gaza to Saudi Arabia
March 18, 2012, a single truck carrying tomatoes is set to leave Kerem Shalom Crossing for the Allenby Bridge border crossing. The tomatoes belong to Abed Al Rauf Abu Safar, a merchant from the Gaza Strip. Read More »

Despite restrictions, building materials continue to flow in
Israel restricts the entry of building materials into the Gaza Strip on suspicion they will be used for military purposes. Yet, building materials find a way into the Gaza Strip regardless, via the tunnels. Read More »

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics: Palestinian women’s participation in the workforce is still limited
March 8, 2012. Ahead of International Women’s Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics published a number of figures on the status of Palestinian women in the occupied Palestinian territory. We highlight some particularly interesting statistics. Read More »

First time in 5 years: Goods sold from Gaza to West Bank
March 5, 2012. Two trucks carrying date bars traveled from Gaza to the West Bank today as part of a program by the World Food Program to feed Palestinian schoolchildren. Read More »

Blackouts in Gaza
February 27, 2012. While the Gaza Strip experiences 8-hour rolling blackouts, the Gaza energy authority has announced it is waiting for diesel to be shipped from Egypt, but not through the tunnels. Read More »

Unemployment rate in Gaza on the rise: 30.3%
February 23, 2012. According to figures published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, during the final quarter of 2011, the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip rose by 2.3%. There are 108,000 jobless people in Gaza Read More »

Israeli Human Rights Groups Call to Lift Travel Ban Against Palestinian Human Rights Defender
February 22, 2012. Israel’s Supreme Court today will hear a petition filed by Shawan Jabarin, General Director of Al-Haq, against a travel ban that has prevented him from leaving the West Bank for the past six years. Read More »

Fifth day without electricity: The fuel for hospital generators in the Gaza Strip is running out and there are fears of sewage floods.
February 19, 2012. Hamas has refused to accept fuel from Egypt via Kerem Shalom Crossing and there are reports that the Palestinian Authority has refused to buy fuel from Israel. In the meantime, fuel reserves in Gaza are dwindling. Read More »