[i] Agnès Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Leilani Farha, Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing; Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Idriss Jazairy Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights; Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967; Nyaletsossi Clément Voule, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and association. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22950
[ii] More than two thirds of Gaza’s population are refugees.
[iii] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/13/israel-apparent-war-crimes-gaza
[iv] (30 March – 13 August) http://www.emro.who.int/images/stories/palestine/documents/WHO-Health-Cluster-Special-SitRep-7-13_Aug.pdf?ua=1
[v] https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/06/1012162
[vi] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-response-to-violence-in-gaza
[viii] https://www.ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/gaza_snapshot_16_08_2018.pdf
[ix] https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/palestine-update-140610.htm
[x] https://www.ochaopt.org/page/how-humanitarian-aid-funded
[xi] http://gisha.org/updates/4388
[xiii] https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/gaza-strip
[xv] Ibid.
[xvi] Ibid.
[xviii] https://www.unicef.org/oPt/UNICEF_oPt_-_Gaza_Fact_sheet_-_November_2012.pdf
[xix] https://www.map.org.uk/downloads/health-under-occupation---map-report-2017.pdf
[xx] https://unsco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/gaza_10_years_later_-_11_july_2017.pdf
[xxiv] https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/08/285648.htm
[xxvi] http://www.emro.who.int/images/stories/palestine/documents/RAD-june_2018.pdf?ua=1
[xxvii] Israeli human rights organisation Gisha found that in the first quarter of 2018, 833 exit permit applications – including for cancer patients – were denied by Israel on the grounds that the applicant’s “first-degree relative is a Hamas operative”. This is up from 21 refusals for the same reason in 2017, and led a group of Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations to accuse Israel of using patients as “pawns for political gain”, further stating that “the solution to the crisis in Gaza cannot be found in further collective punishment and abuse of the civilian population” http://mezan.org/en/post/23105
[xviii] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22854&LangID=E