Crisis in Gaza

What future for Gaza?

The humanitarian situation in the Strip of Gaza has been deteriorating as a result of continued Israeli control of borders, trade, entry into Gaza and of the suspension of international aid to the Palestinian National Authority following the election of Hamas last January.

The bloody fighting between Hamas and Fatah movement, which has peaked with Hamas’ complete control of the Gaza Strip by its military wing—Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades, has taken the lives of 146 Palestinians (36 of them are civilians), including 5 children and 8 women, and has wounded at least 700 others according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

With Israel closing all border crossings with the Strip, Gaza being defined as a hostile entity, its whole population seen as allied to Hamas, it is expected that the humanitarian situation will further deteriorate.