gaza

Since the withdrawal, Israel is the occupying power _around_ Gaza as it controls all access to the Gaza - by land, sea and air.

This means things like not turning off power to Gaza from the power plant at Ashkelon, as some were suggesting offhandedly a couple of years ago.

Its civilian deaths from any mortar attack from Gaza (let's assume 100% terrorism) in the past 14 years?

People wonder why anyone would want to live in the Middle East; Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip?

Apartheid is about two types of citizens, Gaza is not in Israel, the concept make no sense there at all.

Israel is considered an occupying power within Gaza and the West Bank according to international law.

Well, this make it sound like Israel made peace with Gaza and gave it absolute freedom, but this is completely false.

You were not born in the Gaza strip, Syria, Turkey's east border, Mexico, South Korea or Cuba...

But Israel is different: > For example, Israeli civilian deaths from any mortar attack from Gaza (let's assume 100% terrorism) in the past 14 years?

After Hamas won democratic elections in Gaza in 2006 (with an electoral platform that among other things renounced the call for the destruction of Israel), Israel shut the borders of Gaza preventing the flow of people and goods.

Was Israel's attack on Gaza in 2014 a military or a terror attack, given that 3/4 of the victims were civilians (among which 550 children, 300 women)?

> Apartheid is about two types of citizens, Gaza is not in Israel, the concept make no sense there at all.

>In the last years USA and Europe were repeatedly urged to pay with trucks full of money the last "Gaza reconstruction".

Just look at what they did in Gaza (From the article): "Overpumping in Gaza, which causes seawater and sewage to penetrate into the aquifer, has made 90 percent of the potable water undrinkable." It's probably best that they have a limit on drilling and pumping.

To be totally frank with you, I think that most "terrorists" would much prefer to be able to fly fighter jets and surgically bomb only the enemy's combatants, at least with the precision demonstrated by Israel in Gaza.

Israel removed its settlers from Gaza, but retained total control over its airspace, maritime access and all borders.

Gaza is not Israel, the entire concept of apartheid doesn't even make any sense in that concept.

As a consequence of that, 70% of Gaza's workforce are unemployed and 80% of its residents live in poverty.