The situation has deteriorated further in recent months as a result of the geo-political changes which took place in the region during the course of 2013, particularly in Egypt and its closure of the majority of smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza as well as increased restrictions at Rafah | , 27 October 2014: 'One Israeli analyst has compared the proposed solution to transforming a third-world prison into a modern US super-max incarceration facility |
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and strove to enforce law by progressively removing guns from the hands of peripheral militias, clans, and criminal groups, and gaining control of supply tunnels | In December 2015, Egypt asked Israel not to allow Turkish aid to get through to the Gaza Strip |
The southern border with Egypt continued to be the international border drawn in 1906 between the and the.
4The Israeli human rights organization has helped Gaza residents who had moved from the West Bank to Gaza return to the West Bank arguing that extremely pressing personal circumstances provide humanitarian grounds for relief | 3 mi northeast of Rafah, and several towns around are located along the coast between it and |
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Of those funds, the major part is supported by the U | , AFP, via SBS World News Australia , 13 November 2007 |
" The EU Border Monitors initially monitored the border because Hamas guaranteed their safety, but they later fled.
10UNOCHA called on Israel to reduce restrictions on exports and the import of construction materials, and to lift the general ban on movement between Gaza and the West Bank via Israel | The Israeli authorities found she did not meet the criteria for travel, namely only in exceptional humanitarian cases |
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Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol | has likewise argued that the Gaza Strip can be considered a with some aspects of sovereignty, writing that "a proto-state already exists in the Gaza Strip, with objective attributes of sovereignty the Ramallah-based Mahmoud Abbas can only dream about |
387:'There are no Israeli troops in Gaza, which everybody regards as a self-governing enclave cut from the Middle East.
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