In detail | Since when are the Gazatis movement restricted in the strip?
1967: Israel declared Gaza and Bank as territories under military occupation after the six -day war. The conflict faced Egypt, Jordan and Iraq against Israel, whose decisive victory included the capture of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jersualén del Este, Los Altos del Golán (in Syria) and the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt).
Since then, Israel implemented a general closing policy towards Gaza and the West Bank, and the restrictions for its inhabitants began, but it was in the 90s When they intensified. Israel reduced fishing areas in Palestinian waters, limited work permits for Gazati and imposed movement restrictions at specific crosses such as Erez. He established that only those who had a card issued by the Israeli state could leave the strip and were not granted to release or with a history, or to people who had been arrested and released without any charge.
1991: Israel intensified the restrictions and imposed that whoever wanted to leave Gaza or other busy territory should have a specific permission. The number of gazaties who entered Israel began to decline. That new regime marked the beginning of a total closing policy, which reached one of its peak moments in 1993after the murder of nine Israeli civilians and six members of the army, by residents of Gaza. From that moment, Israel imposed an indefinite general closure on the occupied Palestinian territories and established multiple controls to monitor compliance.
2000: After the intense popular uprising of the Gazatis against Israel, known as second intifada (the first occurred between 1987 and 1993), Israel reinstated the total closure of the strip; He occupied areas like Mawasi, in the south, blocked multiple border crossings (such as those of Sufa, Karni and Nahal Oz, which later closed permanently) and radically reduced the activity of others, such as Rafah’s.
2007: When Hamas came to power in Gaza, Israel redoubled the restrictions against freedom of movement. He suspended the Customs Code, making it impossible for the Palestinian enclave trade, and declared the strip as a “hostile and enemy entity.” Before the second intifada, 500,000 people left Gaza to Israel every month, mostly workers, according to Ocha data. Between 2007 and 2014 that number was reduced to 4,000 on average. For the next eight years, until 2022, it increased 10,400 people per month.
The information collected belongs to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the occupied territories, the Human Rights Center of Al Mezan, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UN Agency for Refugees Palestinians
