Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/gaza-blockade-israel-banned-items

The fluctuating policy has targeted a huge range of items, as tracked by an Israeli human rights group. The latest version of the blockade is nearly total

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TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Awesome. Definitely logical and not at all intended to enhance suffering.

Other articles that Israel has denied include “dates, sleeping bags, medicines to treat cancer, water purification tablets and maternity kits”, according to the report. Dates could be a lifeline to a starving a population, but they were blocked from entering Gaza because, sources told CNN, the seeds made dates look suspicious in X-ray inspection images. Sleeping bags were denied “because they were the color green”, a humanitarian official told CNN, “and green means military and according to the 2008 list, military is dual use”. What began as a deliberate policy to bring Gaza’s economy grinding to a standstill is now being used to bring its civilian population to its knees.

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