Gaza

samoupravno palestinsko ozemlje med Egiptom in Izraelom

Gaza (arabsko قطاع غزة, latinizirano: Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah) je manjše palestinsko ozemlje pod lastno upravo[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] na vzhodni obali Sredozemskega morja, ki meji na Egipt na jugozahodu in Izrael na vzhodu in severu. Gaza skupaj z Zahodnim bregom tvori Palestinska ozemlja, del načrtovane prihodnje države Palestine. Gazo in Zahodni breg deli izraelsko ozemlje. Od junija 2006 je Gaza pod upravo Hamasa, palestinske islamske organizacije,[11] ki je prevzela oblast po zmagi na volitvah leta 2006. Takrat sta Izrael in ZDA proti Gazi uvedla mednarodni ekonomski in politični bojkot.[12]

Gaza
قطاع غزة
Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah
Lega Gaze
Status • del Palestinske oblasti po sporazumu iz Osla[1]

 • upravlja Hamas od julija 2007

 • spada pod Palestinoa
Največje mestoGaza
31°31′N 34°27′E / 31.517°N 34.450°E / 31.517; 34.450
Uradni jezikiarabščina
Etnične skupine
Površina
• skupaj
365 km2[2]
Prebivalstvo
• ocena 2022
2.375.259[3]
• gostota
6507/km2
Valuta
  1. Palestino priznava 137 članic Združenih narodov.
  2. od leta 1951.
  3. od leta 1986 – izraelska valuta, pred tem stari izraelski šekel (1980–1985) in izraelska lira (1967–1980).

Ozemlje Gaze je dolgo 41 km in široko 6 do 12 km, s skupno površino 365 km².[13][14] Z 2,37 milijona prebivalcev[3] je tretje najgosteje poseljena politična enota na svetu.[15][16] Zaradi velikega izraelskega tamponskega območja je precejšen del Gaze nedostopen za prebivalce.[17] Z naravnim prirastom prebivalstva 2,91 % (ocena leta 2014) je trinajsta na svetu in pogosto označena za prenaseljeno.[14][18] Zaradi izraelsko-egiptovske blokade prebivalci ne smejo prosto zapustiti Gaze ali vstopiti vanjo, prepovedana sta tudi izvoz in uvoz izdelkov. Večina prebivalstva Gaze predstavljajo suniti.

Kljub izraelskemu umiku iz Gaze leta 2005[19] Združeni narodi, mednarodne organizacije za človekove pravice ter večina državnikov in pravnikov označuje, da je Gaza še vedno pod izraelsko okupacijo, ki jo podpira tudi Egipt z omejitvami prebivalcev. Izrael tako ohranja neposreden nadzor nad Gazo od zunaj in posredni nadzor nad življenjem v Gazi: nadzira zračni in pomorski prostor Gaze ter šest od sedmih mejnih prehodov Gaze na kopnem. Hkrati si jemlje pravico, da vstopi v Gazo z vojsko in ohranja tamponska območja znotraj ozemlja Gaze, ki je od Izraela odvisna na področnih oskrbe z vodo, elektriko, telekomunikacij in ostalih komunalnih storitev.[19]

Po zmagi Hamasa na volitvah leta 2006 se je Fatah odrekel sodelovanju v koaliciji, dokler ni Saudova Arabija izpogajala vlade narodne enotnosti. Ko je ta pod skupnim pritiskom Izraela in ZDA junija 2007 razpadla, je palestinski svet prevzel upravo Zahodnega brega, Hamas pa upravljanje Gaze.[20] Izrael in Višegrajska skupina sta na to odgovorila z dodatnimi gospodarskimi sankcijami proti Hamasu. V Gazi je med Hamasom in Fatahom izbruhnil kratek spopad za nadzor nad ozemljem, pri čemer so sodelovale ZDA, toda Hamas je ostal na oblasti ter izgnal člane Fataha in PA iz uprave[21][22] ter ostaja na čelu Gaze.[20]

Sklici

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  1. Mideast accord: the overview; Rabin and Arafat sign accord ending Israel's 27-year hold on Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Chris Hedges, New York Times, 5 May 1994.
  2. The Gaza Strip: The Humanitarian Impact of the Blockade Arhivirano 2015-07-17 na Wayback Machine.. UN OCHA, July 2015. "1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are ‘locked in’, denied free access to the remainder of the occupied Palestinian territory and the outside world." Available at Fact Sheets Arhivirano 2016-03-29 na Wayback Machine..
  3. 3,0 3,1 »مليونان و375 ألف نسمة عدد سكان قطاع غزة مع نهاية 2022«. arabic.news.cn. Pridobljeno 5. januarja 2023.
  4. »WORKING IN THE GAZA STRIP«. UNRWA. Pridobljeno 8. februarja 2016. The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt at the south-west and Israel to the north and east.
  5. James Kraska, 'Rule Selection in the Case of Israel's Blockade of Gaza:Law of Naval Warfare or Law of Sea?,' in M.N. Schmitt, Louise Arimatsu, Tim McCormack (eds.,) Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Springer Science & Business Media, 2011 pp.367-395, p.387:'There are no Israeli troops in Gaza, which everybody regards as a self-governing enclave cut from the Middle East.'
  6. »Life in the Gaza Strip«. BBC News. 14. julij 2014. Pridobljeno 8. februarja 2016.
  7. »Gaza: The Basics«. Slate. 25. januar 2008. Pridobljeno 8. februarja 2016.
  8. »What's The Difference Between The West Bank and The Gaza Strip?«. International Business Times. 18. junij 2014. Pridobljeno 8. februarja 2016.
  9. »Environmental Assessment of the Gaza Strip« (PDF). United Nations Environment Programme. 2009. Arhivirano iz prvotnega spletišča (PDF) dne 28. junija 2010. Pridobljeno 8. februarja 2016.
  10. »Everything You Need to Know About the Israel-Gaza Conflict«. ABC News. 31. julij 2014. Pridobljeno 8. februarja 2016.
  11. Tristan Dunning, Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy: Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine, Routledge, 2016 p.212:'Since taking sole control of Gaza in June 2007, Hamas has proven itself to be a remarkably resilient and resourceful government entity. The movement has clearly entrenched itself as the hegemonic power in the coastal enclave to such an extent that the International Crisis Group contends that the power struggle in Gaza is no longer between Hamas and Fatah. Rather the main source of confrontation is between Hamas and other more hardline Islamists and salafists. . . Hamas has been far more successful in an administrative sense than the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, despite having access to only a fraction of the resources.'
  12. Sara Roy, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector, Princeton University Press, 2013 p.41:'Hamas's democratic victory, however, was short-lived . .followed as it was in June 2006 by an Israeli and U.S.-led international political and economic boycott of the new Palestinian government. The boycott amounted to a form of collective punishment against the entire Palestinian population and, to my knowledge, was the first time in the history of the conflict that the international community imposed sanctions on the occupied rather than the occupier.'
  13. Arnon, Arie (Autumn 2007). »Israeli Policy towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Economic Dimension, 1967-2007« (PDF). Middle East Journal. 61 (4): 575. Arhivirano iz prvotnega spletišča (PDF) dne 30. junija 2013.
  14. 14,0 14,1 Gaza Strip Arhivirano 2014-06-08 na Wayback Machine. Entry at the CIA World Factbook
  15. Thomas E. Copeland, Drawing a Line in the Sea: The Gaza Flotilla Incident and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Arhivirano 2 November 2022 na Wayback Machine. Lexington Books, 2011 p.25
  16. Doug Suisman, Steven Simon, Glenn Robinson, C. Ross Anthony, Michael Schoenbaum (eds.) The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, Arhivirano 2 November 2022 na Wayback Machine. Rand Corporation, 2007 p.79
  17. Hilmi S.Salem, 'Social, Environmental and Security Impacts of Climate Change on the Eastern Mediterranean,' in Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pál Dunay, Joern Birkmann(eds.), Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks, Springer Science & Business Media, 2011 pp.421-445 p.431.
  18. The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace - Page 52, Cheryl Rubenberg - 2003
  19. 19,0 19,1 Sanger, Andrew (2011). Schmitt, M.N.; Arimatsu, =Louise; McCormack, Tim (ur.). »The Contemporary Law of Blockade and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla«. Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 2010. Springer Science+Business Media. 13: 429. ISBN 9789067048118.{{navedi časopis}}: Vzdrževanje CS1: dodatno ločilo (povezava)
  20. 20,0 20,1 Dennis J. Deeb II, Israel, Palestine, & the Quest for Middle East Peace, University Press of America, 2013.
  21. David Rose, 'The Gaza Bombshell,' Vanity Fair April,2008.'The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. . But the secret plan backfired, resulting in a further setback for American foreign policy under Bush. Instead of driving its enemies out of power, the U.S.-backed Fatah fighters inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of Gaza.'
  22. Sara Roy, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza, p.45.' Dahlan, who was supported by U.S. officials, has been a bitter enemy of Hamas since his 1996 crackdown on the movement. He consistently refused to accept the Palestinian unity government brokered by the Saudi government in the Mecca Agreement "and made his opposition intolerable to Hamas when he refused to subject the security forces under his command, armed and trained by the U.S., to the legitimate Palestinian unity government as agreed between Hamas and Fatah." Alistair Crooke, a former Middle East adviser to the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, similarly observed, "Dahlan refused to deal with (the independent interior minister appointed to the unity government), and put his troops on the streets in defiance of the interior minister. Hamas felt that they had little option but to take control of security away from forces which were in fact creating insecurity." Hence, Hamas was not attempting a coup against the government or the Fatah organization as a whole but also against Dahlan's U.S.-funded militia (and individual Fatah loyalists it blamed for the murder of Hamas members).'