Paper 7: Breaking Gaza

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Sources for Paper 7: Breaking Gaza

The information used in this paper has been taken from:

·         UN OCHA OPT Map of the population density in Gaza

·      Settlement population in the Gaza Strip before "disengagement"

·         Settlement and Settler Statistics (and its vast increase), BTselem 

·      Settler relocation to the West Bank 

·         Statistics of Operation Cast Lead, BTselem

·         UN OCHA OPT Gaza Strip Fact Sheet

·         UN OCHA OPT Gaza Strip Presentation

·         Israel’s stated aims in the Gaza blockade has been a mixture of the following (a) stopping rockets (b) pressuring Hamas (c) an economic blockade. Its stated aim has been to weaken the Hamas government, knowing that the civilian population would suffer. To read more on this, see the PCHR report on the Gaza blockade and Jonathan Cook’s piece on “The Real Goal of Israel’s Gaza Blockade”
Human Rights reports on Operation Cast Lead and Israeli War Crimes:

·         GoldstoneReport: Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,September 2009

·         Guidelinesfor Israel's Investigation into Operation Cast Lead: Position Paper, February2009

·         White Flag Deaths: Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead, August 2009

·         Under Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza, March 2009

·         Israel/Gaza:Operation "Cast Lead": 22 days of death and destruction , July 2009

·         Turning a Blind Eye: Impunity for Laws-of-War Violations During the Gaza War, April 2010

·          “I Lost Everything”: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property During Operation Cast Lead, May 2010

·         Humanitarian Situation in Gaza graphs:

o    The data for these graphs has been taken from a report by the World Food Programme, titled Gaza: Eased or Un-eased? Published June 2011

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