{"id":4494,"date":"2008-10-21T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2008-10-21T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:58:48","slug":"report-on-the-drastic-consequences-of-gaza-siege-prepared-by-the-popular-committee-against-siege-pcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4494","title":{"rendered":"Report On The Drastic Consequences of Gaza Siege Prepared by The Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Gaza Strip, Palestine<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freegaza.ps\/english\/index.php?scid=100&#038;id=504&#038;extra=news&#038;type=40\">October, 2008<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>As the Gaza Strip enters its fifth month of \u201ccalm\u201d with the Israelis, 80 percent of the population lives below the line of poverty. Palestinian Legislative Council member and Chairman of the Popular Committee Against the Siege(PCAS), Jamal N. El Khoudary says, \u201cNow more than ever international institutions must take responsibility to hold the Israeli government accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian population.\u201d The Committee\u2019s Statistics Department has issued a report on the effects of the 16 month Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. As of October, the strangling siege over the Gaza Strip reached its sixteenth month and the siege&#8217;s drastic results on all economic sectors of life in the Gaza Strip make it a catastrophic zone of the first degree, as 1.5 million citizens are living under the effect of the siege. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freegaza.ps\/english\/index.php?scid=100&#038;id=504&#038;extra=news&#038;type=40\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestine-info.co.uk\/En\/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s77zFNv6AjiSwNfw467yywbYuUx66p63T6KtY5G4%2fnpBNo%2bMPJAIUnjdxCBWOuMU3csNqcweZy0OANLeftJs89NcwvO%2fsKf4lJwaeGv3is1JM%3d\">European campaign to organize multinational parliamentary visit to Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gaza Strip, Palestine October, 2008 Introduction As the Gaza Strip enters its fifth month of \u201ccalm\u201d with the Israelis, 80 percent of the population lives below the line of poverty. Palestinian Legislative Council member and Chairman of the Popular &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4494\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}