Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (5)

By Jimmy Carter
The Israeli Apartheid - part 2

The Israeli Apartheid - part 3

(The Gaza Strip)
Living among 1.3 million Palestinians, the 8000 Israeli settlers were controlling 40 percent of the arable land and more than one-half the water resources, and 12000 troops were required to defend their presence.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, page 168.

A life in constant fear

They [Palestinians in Gaza] are being strangled since the Israeli "withdrawal",
surrounded by a separation barrier that is penetrated only by Israeli-controlled checkpoints, with just a single opening (for personnel only) into Egypt's Sinai as their access to the outside world. There have been no moves by Israel to permit transportation by sea or by air. Fishermen are not permitted to leave the harbor, workers are prevented from going to outside jobs, the import or export of food and other goods is severely restricted and often cut off completely, and the police teachers, nurses, and social workers are deprived of salaries.
Per capita income has decreased 40 percent during the last three years, and the poverty rate has reached 70 percent. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has stated that acute malnutrition in Gaza is already on the same scale as that seen in the poorer countries of the Southern Sahara, with more than half of all Palestinian families eating only one meal a day.

This was the impact of Israel's unilateral withdrawal, even before Israel's massive bombardment and reinvasion in July 2006 after being provoked by Hammas militants.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, page 175-176.

To be continued...
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