Media coverage
Al Jazeera English · 2009-12-28
Al Jazeera English's Inside Story of 28 December 2009, a year after the 2008–09 war, on the Israeli blockade of Gaza and its human cost. Omar Shaban, introduced as an economist and director of Pal-Think, speaks from Gaza alongside Gideon Levy of Haaretz and an Oxfam representative. He says not a single sack of cement has entered Gaza since the war and that only about 40 of the 8,000 goods Gaza used to import from Israel are allowed in, calls the siege a collective punishment that strengthens the radical trend within Hamas, and argues that the Israeli siege, not Egypt's planned border wall, is the root of the problem.
Al Jazeera English's Inside Story of 28 December 2009, a year after the 2008–09 war, on the Israeli blockade of Gaza and its human cost. Omar Shaban, introduced as an economist and director of Pal-Think, speaks from Gaza alongside Gideon Levy of Haaretz and an Oxfam representative. He says not a si…