RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Gaza– September 02, 2021. Palestinians buy fishes at fish market after Israel expand the fishing zone in the Gaza Strip to 15 nautical miles, in Gaza city.


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Israel said it would expand Gaza's fishing zone, increase its water supply and allow more Palestinian traders and goods to enter Israel. "It has been decided to expand the fishing zone in the Gaza Strip to 15 nautical miles, as well as to completely open the Kerem Shalom Crossing, for the passage of equipment and goods," read a statement from COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for civilian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories

Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.

Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.

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