Gaza Action and Information Center
The following list of primary documents, fact sheets and analysis is courtesy of Racheli Gai and JVP's Chicago chapter, also known as Not In My Name. These documents go back to December, 2007. To see a more comprehensive list of documents, go to JVP Chicago/NIMN's website here.
| TITLE: Four Deaths: Whose Security? | | AUTHOR: PHR-Israel | | The
stories of the deaths of three women and one baby girl ... give a small
glimpse ... in which the suffering of sickness and the cruelty of a
hostile bureaucracy combine to embitter the last days of these people’s
lives. |
| TITLE: [PDF] Gaza: A Humanitarian Implosion | | AUTHOR: Oxfam | | The
situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now
than it has ever been since 1967. [It] is man-made, completely
avoidable and, with the necessary political will, can also be reversed. |
| TITLE: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OPT | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | 110
Palestinians, including 51 civilians, were killed by IOF in the Gaza
Strip. The victims include 27 children (including 2 babies) and 6 women
and a paramedic. 69 of the victims were killed by IOF in Jabalya ....
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| TITLE: [PDF] ESCALATION IN VIOLENCE: 27 FEB - 3 MARCH 2008 | | AUTHOR: OCHA Humanitarian Update | | The
IDF operation exacerbated an already deteriorating humanitarian
situation emanating from the near total blockade on Gaza since June
2007... |
| TITLE: Narratives Under Siege (6): Abed Rabbo St, East Jabaliya | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | “I
heard shooting, then screaming. I rushed upstairs to see what had
happened, and they were both on the floor. Jaqueline was already dead,
but Iyad was still alive.... |
| TITLE: PCHR Press Releases and Photos | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | These press releases [and photos] detail the mounting ... toll in the Gaza strip. ...108 Killed, 54 of them Civilians. |
| TITLE: At least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem press release | | Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting |
| TITLE: Palestinian Health System in Gaza on Brink of Collapse | | AUTHOR: PHR-Israel | | Following
Israel's military operations in Gaza, hospitals in Gaza are now finding
it almost impossible to function due to massive overload of injured
people continuing to arrive for admission. |
| TITLE: Health Situation in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza | | The MoH (Ministry of Health?) has declared a state of emergency in all the MoH hospitals.. |
| TITLE: [PDF]THE SITUATION IN GAZA IS "GRIM AND MISERABLE" | | AUTHOR: UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF | | "I have been shocked by the grim and miserable things that I have seen and heard today, which are the result of current restrictions and the limitations on the number of goods that are being allowed into Gaza...” |
| TITLE: [PDF]Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | | AUTHOR: UN-OCHA | | 30 January – 5 February 2008 |
| TITLE: [PDF]Electricity Shortages in the Gaza Strip: Situation Report | | AUTHOR: OCHA | | The majority of Gazan households have power cuts of at least eight hours per day. Some have no electricity for long as 12 hours a day. |
| TITLE: Israeli High Court Okays Siege | | AUTHOR: Yuval Yoaz | | High Court okays reducing fuel and power supply to Gaza Strip |
| TITLE: In response to the Supreme Court | | AUTHOR: Press Release | | "This is an unprecedented decision authorizing collective punishment in its most blatant form..." |
| TITLE: [PDF]Gaza Closure: Situation Report | | AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt | | Access to Egypt and its shops may have provided some psychological respite from the closure of the Gaza Strip but 1.5 million Gazans still rely on Israel for all their supplies |
| TITLE: Narratives Under Siege | | AUTHOR: PCHR | | In order to highlight the impact of the siege and closure of the Gaza Strip on the civilian population, PCHR is publishing a series of "Narratives Under Siege." ... based on personal testimonies |
| TITLE: Gaza escape: too little, too late | | AUTHOR: Ed O'Loughlin in Rafah. | | Aid agencies warn that the goods coming across from Egypt this week... cannot even begin to compensate for the thousands of daily tonnes of imported fuel and supplies cut off by the now near-total Israeli blockade. |
| TITLE: Resolve the Crisis at the Rafah Border Crossing | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights Call Upon Israel, Egypt and the International Community to Resolve the Crisis at the Rafah Border Crossing |
| TITLE: [PDF]Gaza Strip Humanitarian Fact Sheet | | AUTHOR: Inter-agency fact sheet | | ... shortages of food, medical and relief items, spare parts for critical health and water sanitation installations, materials for humanitarian projects and raw materials for Gaza’s commerce and industry. |
| TITLE: PCHR Calls On the International Community to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | | PCHR believes that the conspiracy of silence practised by the international community has encouraged Israel to act as if it is above the law and encourages Israel to violate international human rights and humanitarian law. |
| TITLE: Israeli and Palestinian organizations petition High Court to resume fuel supply to Gaza | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | This request was filed as part of a petition against the sanctions on the Gaza Strip, from October 2007. |
| TITLE: Any Palestinian killed by Israel defined as Terrorist | | AUTHOR: B'Tselem | | It appears that the head of the ISA defines every Palestinian killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip as a terrorist. |
| TITLE: Emergency convoy of medical supplies/ High Court denies 8 life-threatening cases access to medical care. | | AUTHOR: PHR-Israel Update 9.1.08 | | Despite a previous High Court Ruling that stipulated that patients with security prohibitions should be ensured alternative routes of access to care, the Court refused to compel the State to ensure passage to the patients. |
| TITLE: [PDF]POWER SHORTAGES IN THE GAZA STRIP | | AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | | Households in the Gaza Strip are now experiencing regular power cuts. |
| TITLE: Demonstrators hold symbolic funeral for victims of Gaza siege | | AUTHOR: www.chinaview.cn | | Palestinian demonstrators held a symbolic funeral for 60 late patients who died due to an Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip since June 2007. |
| TITLE: Gaza sewage, water disaster looms | | AUTHOR: MEL FRYKBERG | | Gaza Palestinians are facing an impending health disaster from decaying sewage and water systems that lack vital spare parts, fuel, and maintenance work, due to an Israeli economic siege on the Gaza Strip. |
| TITLE: Gaza Human Rights Organizations Condemn Violence between Fatah Supporters and Palestinian Police in the Gaza Strip | | AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release | | Violence erupted after the Government in Gaza banned celebrations to mark the ... anniversary of the establishment of the Fatah movement, in what appears to have been a response to the ban imposed by the Government in Ramallah on Hamas marking the ... ann |
| TITLE: Supreme Court rejects rights groups' appeal against Gaza fuel cuts | | AUTHOR: Ynet News | | Court refuses to issue injunction against fuel cuts to coastal territory, says rights groups failed to prove Israeli measure would cause humanitarian harmAssociated Press |
| TITLE: Israel Supreme Court Sharply Criticizes State Attorneys | | AUTHOR: News Release, Tuesday, December 25, 2007 | | In court petition to prevent electricity and fuel cuts to Gaza,Supreme Court Sharply Criticizes State Attorneys for Submitting Erroneous Information on Gaza Electricity Supply |
| TITLE: Court Document Reveals Military's Reckless Electricity Gamble in Gaza | | AUTHOR: News Release - December 20, 2007 | | State admits plan to cut electricity in Gaza is based on erroneous dataGisha and Adalah: The military is recklessly endangering Gaza residents |
| TITLE: Israeli Operations in Gaza Meet Little Resistance in Washington | | AUTHOR: Nathan Guttman | | As Israel stepped up air attacks on Gaza this week, the Bush administration refrained from blocking any measures or criticizing Israel’s activity... |
| TITLE: The Situation in Gaza | | AUTHOR: Dr. Eyad Sarraj | | A shocking first-hand report about living conditions in the Gaza Strip was delivered Thursday (Dec. 13, 2007) to a group of Israeli peace activists... |
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