Israel has been controlling and restricting the entry of Palestinians into Israel and has claimed that the blockade on Gaza is in retaliation for the rockets fired on the residents of Sderot, an Israeli city less than a mile away from Gaza. Yet, the world’s major human rights and aid groups have denounced Israel’s stringent siege of Gaza, which has plunged the population into a serious humanitarian crisis. The blockade was a form of punishment imposed on a million and a half civilians.
