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Guide: Gaza under blockade

June 1st 2010 23:07

The Gaza Strip has been under a heightened Israeli blockade since the militant group Hamas seized control in June 2007. Israel wants to weaken Hamas, end its rockets attacks against Israeli towns and get back captured soldier Gilad Shalit.
Amnesty International has dubbed the blockade "collective punishment" resulting in a "humanitarian crisis"; UN officials have described the situation as "grim", "deteriorating" and a "medieval siege", but Israel says there are no shortages in Gaza, pointing to the aid it allows in.
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Comment by S.L.

June 1st 2010 23:12
Israel is being much nicer to Hamas than the other way around. Makes you wonder what was really among those "supplies", doesn't it?

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