15 years of the unjust Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, amid calls for international intervention to end it

On June 14, 2007, the Israeli occupation imposed its unjust siege on the Gaza Strip, turning Gaza into a large prison that suffocates the lives of more than two million Palestinians in humanitarian, health, environmental and economic crises that aggravate on daily basis as a result of the occupation’s land, air and sea attacks, which caused the death and injury of thousands of Palestinians and massive destruction of infrastructure.

For 15 years, the international community continues its silence about the lack of necessities of life, isolating the people of the Gaza Strip from the world, and killing them with the weapons of the occupation, which start with bullets, going through internationally prohibited weapons, and reaching the siege despite the continuous demands of the Palestinians and the United Nations to lift the unjust siege, which is a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law.

The head of the NGOs Network in the Gaza Strip, Mohsen Abu Ramadan, stated that the siege has caused serious humanitarian disasters and has had a major impact on all the lives of the population of the Strip, whose number exceeds 2.3 million, noting that 5,418 Palestinians have been killed since the imposition of the siege, while tens of thousands have been injured as a result of the siege. The continuous Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which included the destruction of 3118 commercial establishments and 557 factories, in addition to the massive destruction of infrastructure and public utilities.

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