This hasbara narrative is one of the most widespread legal and political misconceptions regarding the Middle East conflict. The mainstream media and pro-Israel communications frequently assert that in 2005, as part of its \u201eunilateral disengagement plan,\u201d , dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza, and withdrew its army from the coastal strip, so Gaza has been free since 2005, and the Palestinian government is solely responsible for the blockade and the humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n
The Antipropaganda.hu<\/b> However, according to the principles of deconstruction, the fact of the occupation is not determined by the physical presence of soldiers, but rather by the effective control<\/b> determines. Based on international law and the consensus of independent organizations, Gaza remained an occupied territory even after 2005.<\/p>\n
Here are the facts, figures, and sources of international law to debunk the myth:<\/p>\n
Article 42 of the 1907 Hague Convention states that a territory is considered occupied if it comes under the authority (control) of the enemy army and the enemy is actually able to exercise that authority.<\/p>\n
In 2005, Israel withdrew its troops from inside the Gaza Strip, but retreated to the borders and established a external and structural audit matrix<\/b> has established a system through which it controls every single moment of daily life for Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is in control:<\/p>\n Airspace and territorial waters:<\/b> Palestinian fishing boats cannot venture more than a few nautical miles offshore without being fired upon by the Israeli Navy. Gaza has no airport or seaport; the IDF exercises absolute control over its airspace.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Land borders and the buffer zone:<\/b> Israel has unilaterally designated a \u201esecurity buffer zone\u201d in the agricultural areas of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli soldiers fire live ammunition at anyone who approaches the fence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Civil Registry:<\/b> No infant in Gaza can obtain an official ID card, passport, or legal status without the approval of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior and its entry into the ministry\u2019s computer system.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Infrastructure and resources:<\/b> The supply of electricity, water, fuel, and telecommunications (4G\/5G networks) to Gaza depends directly on Israeli switches and the approval of state-owned companies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Because Israel exercises this total external control, the world\u2019s leading legal and humanitarian organizations continue to state in their official documents that as the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)<\/b> continue to define Gaza even after 2005:<\/p>\n The United Nations (UN):<\/b> Resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the Security Council (such as Security Council Resolution 1860) consistently state that Gaza, together with the West Bank and East Jerusalem, is an Israeli-occupied territory subject to the Fourth Geneva Convention.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n International Courts:<\/b> The legal opinions of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) make it clear that the 2005 withdrawal did not put an end to the occupying power\u2019s (Occupying Power).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC):<\/b> The International Committee of the Red Cross\u2014as the official guardian of the Geneva Conventions\u2014also maintains that Israel\u2019s blockade and control of Gaza constitute military occupation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n The illegal land, air, and sea blockade imposed in 2007 is not a security measure, but rather the most brutal form of occupation and collective punishment.<\/p>\n For years, Israel measured the amount of food allowed into Gaza down to the last gram. Dov Weisglass, an advisor to the Israeli prime minister at the time, openly and cynically described the purpose of the blockade as follows:<\/p>\n \u201eThe goal of the diet isn\u2019t to starve yourself, but to lose a little weight.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Israeli Ministry of Defense (COGAT) has compiled specific mathematical formulas and calorie charts detailing how much food is needed in Gaza to prevent mass starvation, and adjusted the entry of humanitarian aid to meet this minimum. No sovereign state or free territory is dependent on a neighboring army determining the daily caloric intake of its residents.<\/p>\n The narrative that \u201eGaza has not been occupied since 2005\u201d is a legal fiction designed to shift responsibility. Israel sought to rid itself of its direct obligations to provide for the Palestinian population of Gaza while retaining absolute military and infrastructural control over the territory.<\/p>\n Gaza was not an \u201eindependent Palestinian entity\u201d that had failed at self-governance, but a hermetically sealed, occupied enclave \u2014the world\u2019s largest open-air prison\u2014to which Tel Aviv retained the keys even after 2005.<\/p>\n International legal status:<\/b> Human Rights Watch report: Squeezed: Israel\u2019s Separation Policy and the Gaza Strip.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/li>\n UN and ICRC statements:<\/b> The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) \u2013 Data on the blockade of the Gaza Strip and the status of the occupation.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/li>\n COGAT documents for calorie calculation:<\/b> The Israeli Gisha<\/i> Official Israeli government documents disclosed during a public interest data lawsuit filed by the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement: Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip \u2013 Red Lines<\/i> (2010).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ez a hasbara-narrat\u00edva az egyik legelterjedtebb jogi \u00e9s politikai t\u00e9vhit a k\u00f6zel-keleti konfliktusban. A f\u0151sodrat\u00fa m\u00e9dia \u00e9s a pro-izraeli kommunik\u00e1ci\u00f3 el\u0151szeretettel hangoztatja, hogy Izrael 2005-ben az \u201eegyoldal\u00fa kivonul\u00e1si terv\u201d keret\u00e9ben felsz\u00e1molta a g\u00e1zai zsid\u00f3 telepeket \u00e9s kivonta a hadsereg\u00e9t a tengerparti s\u00e1vb\u00f3l, \u00edgy G\u00e1za 2005 \u00f3ta szabad, a blok\u00e1d\u00e9rt \u00e9s a humanit\u00e1rius katasztr\u00f3f\u00e1\u00e9rt pedig kiz\u00e1r\u00f3lag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32],"tags":[100,96,153,155,154,104],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hasbara-megdonese","category-hazugsagok-tortenelem-hamisitas","tag-hasbara","tag-izrael","tag-kozel-kelet","tag-mediaelemzes","tag-nemzetkozi-kapcsolatok","tag-palesztina"],"modified_by":"Antipropaganda H\u00edrblog","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
2. The Position of the International Community and Legal Forums<\/h2>\n
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3. The blockade as the cornerstone of the \u201eopen-air prison\u201d<\/h2>\n
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Summary:<\/h2>\n
Fact-based sources for this article:<\/h3>\n
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