GAZA EXPORTS

Source: Gisha, 'A costly divide: economic repercussions of separating Gaza and the West Bank' (February 2015), p. 7.

ENDING COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS NOT CONDITIONAL (UPDATED)

A concerted effort is underway to render the lifting of the Gaza blockade conditional on Hamas's disarmament.* In the UK, this is the central message of a new campaign by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). During a debate in parliament yesterday, LFI vice-chair Michael McCann MP was emphatic: The international community needs to put an end to…

The only plus for children in the West Bank…

DCIP research shows that children arrive at Israeli interrogation centers blindfolded, bound and sleep deprived. More than three-quarters of child detainees endure some form of physical violence between the period of their arrest and interrogation, with half of them also strip searched. Almost all children confess regardless of guilt to stop further abuse. In more…