Israel Orders Complete Siege of Gaza, Cuts Off Food, Water, Electricity, Fuel

October 9th, 2023

As Israel masses troops ahead its invasion of the Gaza Strip, it has cut off food, water, electricity and fuel to a population of over two million people.

I don’t know if there is any precedent for this.

Also, Israel is calling up 300,000 troops. This might mean that the war is about to extend beyond Israel’s borders.

Via: Sky:

A “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip – leaving the territory with no food, electricity or fuel – has been ordered by Israel.

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was “battling beastly people” and was conducting itself as such, after Hamas launched a surprise attack from Gaza on Sunday.

The Israeli infrastructure minister Israel Katz said he had ordered the water supply between Israel and Gaza to be shut off immediately.

It comes as a “huge rocket barrage” – speculated to have come from the Gaza Strip – hit central Israel late on Monday morning.

Israeli forces are currently fighting Hamas in two locations inside Israel, after the country formally declared war on the militant group.

Around 300,000 reservists have been called up by the Israeli military.

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4 Responses to “Israel Orders Complete Siege of Gaza, Cuts Off Food, Water, Electricity, Fuel”

  1. williamspd says:
    October 9, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    The precedent for this is probably the last few times Israel did this to Gaza – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2021 etc. We might say that this is one of the more extreme blockades / cut-offs though.

    2006
    https://remix.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/gaza-left-in-the-dark.html#/5

    2008
    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2008/01/israel-cuts-electricity-and-food-supplies-gaza-20080121/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267971/

    2011

    https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-threat-cut-gaza-water-supply-would-be-complete-catastrophe/10675

    2013

    https://euobserver.com/investigations/119824

    2014
    https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/10/gaza-widespread-impact-power-plant-attack

    http://opiniojuris.org/2014/07/26/can-israel-cut-water-power-gaza/

    2017
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-strip-power-cuts-palestinian-authority-hamas-settlements-a7787916.html

    https://www.makan.org.uk/right-to-water/

    2020

    https://tcf.org/content/report/saving-gaza-begins-water/

    2021
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/human-waste-spills-on-to-gazas-blacked-out-streets-as-crisis-looms

    https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session48/Documents/A_HRC_48_43_AdvanceUneditedVersion.docx

    https://climate-diplomacy.org/case-studies/israel-palestine-water-sharing-conflict

    2022

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/occupied-palestinian-territories-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-the-humanitarian-situation-in-gaza-july-2022-accessible

    etc.

  2. dale says:
    October 9, 2023 at 8:53 pm

    Williamspd, long dark list for sure.

    Who is Israel declaring war on? Hamas or the Palestinians in general?

  3. Snowman says:
    October 9, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    Nothing like historical facts to illuminate how we really got to where we are.

    Israel seems to fight humans who have what it wants to eliminate them from — land.

  4. NH says:
    October 11, 2023 at 9:26 am

    Man, thanks for that compilation williamspd.

    Check out this spokesperson for the empire of lies:

    https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/10/yes-there-is-only-thing.html

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