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"The members of the international community, especially the High Contracting Parties to (Fourth Geneva) have shamefully failed to take the action necessary to ensure" this stops and to hold Israel accountable. Instead, they've been complicit in the worst of its crimes, and share equal guilt, especially America, Israel's paymaster/partner.
Israeli forces also prevent Palestinian civilians from entering Israel or going abroad for medical care, other emergencies, education, or their right of free movement - denied throughout Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians are imprisoned on their own land in their own country by a hostile occupier, there illegally.
Throughout 2009, the humanitarian crisis worsened, the result of:
-- 40% unemployment, over 55% in Gaza where poverty exceeds 80%, affecting 1.2 million people;
-- since September 2000, incomes have steadily decreased, down 45% at yearend 2009; and
-- national output dropped sharply in all sectors, especially in Gaza.
Other Imposed Harshness
In December 2009, at least 9,381 Palestinians were imprisoned, including 310 children and 34 women, mostly inside Israel - a clear international law violation under Fourth Geneva's Article 76 stating:
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