Editing Gaza Strip (section)

===Gaza blockade===
{{Main|Blockade of the Gaza Strip}}
Israel and Egypt maintain a blockade of the Gaza Strip in response to security concerns, such as the smuggling of weapons into Gaza. Israel has also stated that the blockade serves as "economic warfare".<ref name="Sara M. Roy"/> The Israeli human rights organization [[Gisha (human rights organization)|Gisha]] reports that the blockade undermines basic living conditions and human rights in Gaza.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gisha |title=Gaza Up Close |url=https://features.gisha.org/gaza-up-close/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |archive-date=1 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201092015/https://features.gisha.org/gaza-up-close/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Red Cross has reported that the blockade harms the economy and causes a shortage of basic medicines and equipment such as painkillers and x-ray film.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096443.html |title=Red Cross: Israel trapping 1.5m Gazans in despair |date=29 June 2009 |work=[[Haaretz]] |access-date=29 June 2009 |archive-date=30 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630165052/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096443.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Israel describes the blockade as necessary to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Gaza. Israel maintains that the blockade is legal and necessary to limit [[Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel|Palestinian rocket attacks]] from the Gaza Strip on its cities and to prevent Hamas from obtaining other weapons,<ref name="middleeastmonitor2013">{{cite web |title=Israel tightens its blockade of Gaza for 'security reasons' |author=Samira Shackle |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/lifestyle/7813-israel-tightens-its-blockade-of-gaza-for-security-reasons |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014153810/http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/lifestyle/7813-israel-tightens-its-blockade-of-gaza-for-security-reasons |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2013 |work=[[Middle East Monitor]] |date=14 October 2013}}:'Yet critics point out that it is not just military supplies that cannot enter Gaza, but basic construction materials, medical supplies, and food stuffs. The issue came to international attention in 2010, when a flotilla of activists attempted to break the blockade and carry humanitarian aid into Gaza. Nine were killed when the Israeli navy entered the flotilla. The incident shone a spotlight onto the blockade of Gaza. At one stage, prohibited materials included coriander, ginger, nutmeg and newspapers. A relaxation of the rules in June 2009 meant that processed hummus was allowed in, but not hummus with extras such as pine nuts or mushrooms. One of the biggest issues has been building materials. The strict restrictions on goods going into Gaza meant that it was impossible to start reconstruction work; it was therefore impossible to repair shattered windows to keep out the winter rain.'</ref><ref name="idf100908">{{cite web |url=http://www.mag.idf.il/163-4314-en/patzar.aspx |title=Position paper on the naval blockade on Gaza |date=2010-09-08 |publisher=idf.il |access-date=28 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116231842/http://www.mag.idf.il/163-4314-en/patzar.aspx |archive-date=2012-01-16}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131015054031/http://www.mag.idf.il/sip_storage//FILES/5/915.pdf Full version in Hebrew])</ref><ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/12/gaza-donors-un-should-press-israel-blockade ''Gaza: Donors, UN Should Press Israel on Blockade''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104210821/https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/12/gaza-donors-un-should-press-israel-blockade |date=4 January 2017 }}, Human Rights Watch, 12 October 2014.</ref> although the legality of the blockade has been challenged by multiple human rights organizations.<ref>(2011) Palmer Report Did Not Find Gaza Blockade Legal, Despite Media Headlines. Amnesty International USA. Retrieved from https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/palmer-report-did-not-find-gaza-blockade-legal-despite-media-headlines {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209211239/https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/palmer-report-did-not-find-gaza-blockade-legal-despite-media-headlines/ |date=9 December 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-10-21 |title=Gisha's response to Palmer Report |url=https://www.gisha.org/item.asp?lang_id=en&p_id=1405 |access-date=2024-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021060731/https://www.gisha.org/item.asp?lang_id=en&p_id=1405 |archive-date=21 October 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to director of the [[Shin Bet]], Hamas and [[Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine|Islamic Jihad]] had smuggled in over "5,000 rockets with ranges up to {{cvt|40|km|0|sp=us}}." Some of the rockets could reach as far as the [[Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?ID=178503 |title=Diskin: No aid crisis in Gaza |publisher=Jpost.com |date=15 June 2010 |access-date=12 December 2010 |archive-date=26 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126130916/http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=178503 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Tent camp gaza strip april 2009.jpg|thumb|Tent camp, April 2009, after [[Gaza War (2008–09)|Operation Cast Lead]]]]Facing mounting international pressure, Egypt lessened the restrictions starting in June 2010, when the Rafah border crossing from Egypt to Gaza was partially opened by Egypt. Egypt's foreign ministry said that the crossing would remain open mainly for people, but not for supplies.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0602/Egypt-eases-own-Gaza-blockade-after-Israel-Freedom-Flotilla-raid Egypt eases own Gaza blockade after Israel Freedom Flotilla raid] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819114620/http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0602/Egypt-eases-own-Gaza-blockade-after-Israel-Freedom-Flotilla-raid |date=19 August 2010 }}, Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2010 (page 2)</ref>

Israel also eased restrictions in June 2010 as a result of international pressure following the [[Gaza flotilla raid]] after which food shortages decreased.<ref name="Sara M. Roy2">{{cite book |author=Sara M. Roy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gXAqjgEACAAJ&pg=PA |title=The Gaza Strip |publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies USA, Incorporated |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-88728-321-5 |pages=xxxi |access-date=21 January 2024 |archive-date=11 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311045308/https://books.google.com/books?id=gXAqjgEACAAJ&pg=PA |url-status=live }}</ref> The World Bank reported in 2012 that access to Gaza remained highly restricted and exports to the West Bank and Israel from Gaza are prohibited.<ref>World Bank, Fiscal Crisis, Economic Prospects: The Imperative of Economic Cohesion in the Palestinian Territories—Economic Monitoring Report to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (New York: 23 September 2012), pp. 11-12, online at https://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWESTBANKGAZA/Resources/AHLCReportFinal.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518125427/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWESTBANKGAZA/Resources/AHLCReportFinal.pdf |date=18 May 2019 }} .</ref> This ban on exports was not lifted until 2014.<ref>For the first time since the closure: A truckload of cucumbers left Gaza for sale in the West Bank - Gisha. (6 November 2014). Retrieved from https://gisha.org/en/for-the-first-time-since-the-closure-a-truckload-of-cucumbers-left-gaza-for-sale-in-the-west-bank {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104161608/https://gisha.org/en/for-the-first-time-since-the-closure-a-truckload-of-cucumbers-left-gaza-for-sale-in-the-west-bank/ |date=4 November 2023 }}</ref>

In January and February 2011, the [[United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs]] (UNOCHA) assessed measures taken to ease the blockade<ref name="ocha201103">{{cite web |title=Easing the blockade – Assessing the humanitarian impact on the population of the Gaza Strip |url=http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_special_easing_the_blockade_2011_03_english.pdf |publisher=UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory |access-date=16 July 2011 |date=March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726062323/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_special_easing_the_blockade_2011_03_english.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2011}}</ref> and concluded that they were helpful but not sufficient to improve the lives of the local inhabitants.<ref name="ocha201103" /> UNOCHA called on Israel to reduce restrictions on exports and the [[Gaza imports|import]] of construction materials, and to lift the general ban on movement between Gaza and the West Bank via Israel.<ref name="ocha201103" /> According to [[The Washington Institute for Near East Policy]], the blockade resulted in a loss of over $17&nbsp;million in exports in 2006 from 2005 (roughly 3% of all Palestinian exports).<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |date=23 March 2006 |title=Palestinian Economic Dependence on Israel |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/palestinian-economic-dependence-israel |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=[[The Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] |language=en |archive-date=13 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113040415/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/palestinian-economic-dependence-israel |url-status=live }}</ref> After Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigned on 28 May 2011, Egypt permanently opened its border with Gaza to students, medical patients, and foreign passport holders.<ref name="ocha201103" /><ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304066504576350681957475322 "Egypt Opens Gaza Border"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709191353/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304066504576350681957475322 |date=9 July 2017 }}, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 29 May 2011.</ref>
Following the [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état]], Egypt's military has destroyed most of the 1,200 tunnels which are used for smuggling food, weapons, and other goods to Gaza.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-egypt-hamas-idUSBREA230F520140304 |title=Egypt bans Hamas activities in Egypt |work=Reuters |date=4 March 2014 |access-date=1 July 2017 |archive-date=25 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025194409/http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-egypt-hamas-idUSBREA230F520140304 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After the [[August 2013 Rabaa Massacre]] in Egypt, the border crossing was closed 'indefinitely.'<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013815104352186552.html |title=Rafah crossing closed after Egypt violence – Middle East |publisher=Al Jazeera English |access-date=2014-08-10 |archive-date=19 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141119080010/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013815104352186552.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

While the import of food is restricted through the Gaza blockade, the Israeli military destroys agricultural crops by spraying toxic chemicals over the Gazan lands, using aircraft flying over the border zone. According to the IDF, the spraying is intended "to prevent the concealment of IED's [Improvised Explosive Devices], and to disrupt and prevent the use of the area for destructive purposes."<ref name= memo_destroying_crops>[https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/23117-israeli-military-admits-destroying-gaza-crops-on-border ''Israeli military admits destroying Gaza crops on border''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205121934/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/23117-israeli-military-admits-destroying-gaza-crops-on-border |date=5 February 2016 }}. MEMO, 31 December 2015</ref> Gaza's agricultural research and development station was destroyed in 2014 and again in January 2016, while import of new equipment is obstructed.<ref>[http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/israel-spraying-toxins-palestinian-crops-gaza-160114063046813.html ''Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119144440/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/israel-spraying-toxins-palestinian-crops-gaza-160114063046813.html |date=19 January 2016 }}. Belal Aldabbour, Al Jazeera, 19 January 2016</ref>

====Movement of people====
[[File:Egyptian Convoy to Gaza, Palestine.jpg|thumb|Rafah Border Crossing in 2012]]
Because of the Israeli–Egyptian blockade, the population is not free to leave or enter the Gaza Strip. Only in exceptional cases are people allowed to pass through the [[Erez Crossing]] or the [[Rafah Border Crossing]].<ref name=ocha_factsheet_july_2015>[http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_blockade_factsheet_July_2015_english.pdf ''The Gaza Strip: The Humanitarian Impact of the Blockade''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717234752/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_blockade_factsheet_july_2015_english.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703082308/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_blockade_factsheet_july_2015_english.pdf |archive-date=2015-07-03 |url-status=live |date=17 July 2015 }}. UN OCHA, July 2015. "1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are 'locked in', denied free access to the remainder of the occupied Palestinian territory and the outside world." Available at [http://www.ochaopt.org/reports.aspx?id=103&page=1 ''Fact Sheets''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329054638/http://www.ochaopt.org/reports.aspx?id=103&page=1 |date=29 March 2016 }}.</ref><ref>
*[http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/gaza_crossings_operations_status_september%202015.pdf ''Gaza crossings’ operations status:Monthly update—September 2015''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028021327/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/gaza_crossings_operations_status_september%202015.pdf |date=28 October 2015 }}. UN OCHA. Available at [http://gaza.ochaopt.org/2015/09/gaza-crossings-operations-status-monthly-update-july-2015/ ''Gaza Crossings’ Operations Status: Monthly Update''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016210132/http://gaza.ochaopt.org/2015/09/gaza-crossings-operations-status-monthly-update-july-2015/ |date=16 October 2015 }}
*[http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.659942 ''Open Gaza's crossings—Keeping Gazans locked in the crowded Strip is immoral and strategically unwise''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029171529/http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.659942 |date=29 October 2015 }}. Jack Khoury and Reuters, Haaretz, 28 May 2015
*[http://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/201401_'so_near_and_yet_so_far_eng.pdf ''So near and yet so far—Implications of Israeli‐Imposed Seclusion of Gaza Strip on Palestinians’ Right to Family Life'']{{dead link |date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Hamoked and B'Tselem, January 2014. [http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201401_so_near_and_yet_so_far Here available] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031114337/http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201401_so_near_and_yet_so_far |date=31 October 2015 }}</ref> In 2015, a Gazan woman was not allowed to travel through Israel to Jordan on her way to her own wedding. The Israeli authorities found she did not meet the criteria for travel, namely only in exceptional humanitarian cases.<ref>[http://gisha.org/press/4726 ''Gisha to the High Court: Allow a woman from Gaza to attend her own wedding''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306015101/http://gisha.org/press/4726 |date=6 March 2016 }}. Gisha, 18 November 2015</ref>

Under the long-term blockade, the Gaza Strip is often described as a "prison-camp or open air prison for its collective denizens". The comparison is done by observers, ranging from [[Roger Cohen]] and [[Lawrence Weschler]] to NGOs, such as [[B'tselem]], and politicians and diplomats, such as [[David Cameron]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]], [[David Shoebridge]] and [[John Holmes (British diplomat)|Sir John Holmes]].<ref>
*{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/opinion/sunday/roger-cohen-what-will-israel-become.html |title=What Will Israel Become? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708030956/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/opinion/sunday/roger-cohen-what-will-israel-become.html |archive-date=8 July 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=20 December 2014 |quote=Roger Cohen: "The 140-square-mile area is little better than an open-air prison. As incubators for [[violent extremism]] go, it is hard to imagine a more effective setting than Gaza."}}
*[http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/12635-noam-chomsky-my-visit-to-gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison '' My Visit to Gaza, the World's Largest Open-Air Prison''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024235819/http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/12635-noam-chomsky-my-visit-to-gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison |date=24 October 2015 }}. Truthout, 9 November 2012. Noam Chomsky: 'And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison,'
*[http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/israel_has_been_bitten_by_a_bat_20140718 'Israel Has Been Bitten by a Bat,'] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403071846/http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/israel_has_been_bitten_by_a_bat_20140718 |date=3 April 2015 }} [[Truthdig]] 18 July 2014. Lawrence Weschler:'I'm tired, for example, of hearing about how vital and cosmopolitan and democratic are the streets and cafes and nightclubs of Tel Aviv. For the fact is that one simply can't sustain such cosmopolitan vitality 40 miles from a prison camp containing close to two million people: It's a contradiction in terms.'
*[http://www.btselem.org/download/200705_gaza_insert_eng.pdf ' Gaza:One Big Prison,'] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829212751/http://www.btselem.org/download/200705_gaza_insert_eng.pdf |date=29 August 2014 }}. B'tselem,12 May 2007.
*[http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/gaza-is-open-air-prison-un-humanitarian-chief 'Gaza is 'open-air prison',?] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031023621/http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/gaza-is-open-air-prison-un-humanitarian-chief |date=31 October 2014 }}. The National (Abu Dhabi), 12 March 2010. The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir John Holmes
*{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jul/27/david-cameron-gaza-prison-camp |title='David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza Strip into a 'prison camp' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503110926/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jul/27/david-cameron-gaza-prison-camp |archive-date=3 May 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=27 July 2010 |last1=Watt |first1=Nicholas |last2=Sherwood |first2=Harrie |location=[[Ankara]] and [[Jerusalem]]}}
*{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3664532,00.html |title='Erdogan: Palestine an open-air prison,' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224223650/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3664532,00.html |archive-date=24 December 2014 |website=Ynet |date=31 January 2009 |quote=Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "Palestine today is an open-air prison. Hamas, as much as they tried, could not change the situation. Just imagine, you imprison the speaker of a country as well as some ministers of its government and members of its parliament. And then you expect them to sit obediently?"}}
*{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/International/Australia-MPs-Gaza-is-worlds-largest-outdoor-jail |title=Australia MPs: Gaza is world's largest outdoor jail |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108000626/http://www.jpost.com/International/Australia-MPs-Gaza-is-worlds-largest-outdoor-jail |archive-date=8 January 2015 |work=Jerusalem Post |date=15 March 2013 |last=Zieve |first=Tamara |quote="How could members, who wanted to get a balanced understanding of the issues facing Israel, Palestine and the Middle East, go to the other side of the planet and fail to visit Gaza, the world’s largest outdoor prison?" Shoebridge asked.}}</ref>
In 2014, French president [[François Hollande]] called for the demilitarization of Gaza and a lifting of the blockade, saying "Gaza must neither be an open prison nor a military base."<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4560957,00.html Hollande calls for demilitarization of Gaza] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101014608/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4560957,00.html |date=1 January 2016 }}. Ynet, 20 August 2014</ref>

An anonymous Israeli analyst has called it "Israel's [[Alcatraz]]".<ref>Alain Gresh, Dominique Vidal, [https://books.google.com/books?id=z6mAa4WubagC&pg=PA91 ''The New A-Z of the Middle East,''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102101202/https://books.google.com/books?id=z6mAa4WubagC&pg=PA91 |date=2 November 2022 }} 2nd ed. I.B.Tauris, 2004 p.91.</ref> While [[Lauren Booth]],<ref name="Raz2008">Noa Raz,[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3595097,00.html 'Blair sister-in-law: Gaza world's largest concentration camp,'] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318193203/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3595097,00.html |date=18 March 2015 }} Ynet, 11 September 2008, for Tony Blair's sister-in law, [[Lauren Booth]].</ref><ref name="Shlaifer2014">Ron Shlaifer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eYqoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA203]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102101204/https://books.google.com/books?id=eYqoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA203|date=2 November 2022}} ''Psychological Warfare [in the Arab–Israeli Conflict,'' Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 p.203 – Lauren Booth's expression</ref> [[Philip Slater]],<ref name="Slater2011">Philip Slater, [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/a-message-to-israel-time_b_155978.html ‘A Message to Israel: Time to Stop Playing the Victim Role] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024084228/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/a-message-to-israel-time_b_155978.html |date=24 October 2017 }},’ Huffington Post, 25 May 2011:'Calling Hamas the 'aggressor' is undignified. The Gaza strip is little more than a large Israeli concentration camp, in which Palestinians are attacked at will, starved of food, fuel, energy—even deprived of hospital supplies. They cannot come and go freely, and have to build tunnels to smuggle in the necessities of life.'</ref> [[Giorgio Agamben]]<ref name="Jessica2013">Jessica Whyte, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wZXaAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 ''Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben,''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102101202/https://books.google.com/books?id=wZXaAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 |date=2 November 2022 }} SUNY Press, 2013 p.95.</ref> compare it to a [[concentration camp]]. For [[Robert S. Wistrich]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BfQoxsH9bbwC&pg=PA26 ''Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy,''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102101203/https://books.google.com/books?id=BfQoxsH9bbwC&pg=PA26 |date=2 November 2022 }} Walter de Gruyter, 2012 p.26</ref> and Philip Mendes,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh2vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 ''Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance,''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102101204/https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh2vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 |date=2 November 2022 }} Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 p.91.</ref> such analogies are designed to offend Jews, while [[Philip Seib]] dismisses the comparison as absurd, and claims that it arises from sources like [[Al Jazeera]] and Arab leaders.{{sfn|Seib|2012|p=153}}

Israel restricts movement of Palestinian residents between the West Bank and Gaza. Israel has implemented a policy of allowing Palestinian movement from the West Bank to Gaza, but making it quite difficult for Gaza residents to move to the West Bank. Israel typically refuses to allow Gaza residents to leave for the West Bank, even when the Gaza resident is originally a West Bank resident. The Israeli human-rights organization [[Gisha (human rights organization)|Gisha]] 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.<ref>+972 Magazine, 30 June 2020 [https://www.972mag.com/gaza-movement-separation-policy/ "‘Gaza is a One-Way Ticket’: How Israel's Relocation Policy is Separating Palestinian Communities--Israel Is Systemically Routing Palestinian Movement in One Direction — from the West Bank to Gaza"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707063716/https://www.972mag.com/gaza-movement-separation-policy/ |date=7 July 2020 }}</ref>