Gisha LCFM

22/06/2026

More than eight months into the implementation of the so-called “ceasefire” agreement, Israel still officially bars fishermen from entering the sea. Despite the danger, they continue to go out in order to try to feed their families. In recent weeks, the Israeli navy killed two fishermen, including a child, wounded seven others and arrested 14.

With the economy shattered, historic global decline in foreign aid, more than 1.7 million Palestinians living in tents and the rubble of buildings, and all of Gaza's residents without adequate access to essential goods, including food, there is no excuse to keep the sea closed. As occupying power, Israel is obligated to provide for the needs of the civilian population. Instead, it even bars the protected population from feeding itself.

Israel must immediately lift the prohibition on entering the sea, completely stop attacks on civilians, and allow fishermen safe, consistent access to the sea and to the items and equipment needed to rebuild the sector. The war on local food production must end.
https://gisha.org/en/israels-attacks-on-fishermen-off-gazas-coast-continue/

Video: Majdi Fathi

16/06/2026

"We must talk about these crimes in the present tense because they're occurring today. Gaza is still being erased before our eyes."

Gisha Legal Director Osnat Lifsh*tz on the reality that Israelis choose to look away from as their government disavows responsibility.

Read a joint report analyzing 59 years of occupation here: https://www.occupationreport.org/en

10/06/2026

بيان مشترك صادر عن مؤسسات أهلية في إسرائيل:

قرار المحكمة العليا الإسرائيلية يوفر غطاء لسياسة عرقلة وصول المساعدات الإنسانية للفلسطينيين في خضم أزمة غير مسبوقة

ندعو المجتمع الدولي إلى اتخاذ خطوات ملموسة لحماية حياة الفلسطينيين وحقوقهم

10/06/2026

Joint statement by NGOs in Israel:

Israeli High Court endorses Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian access for Palestinians at a time of unprecedented crisis.

We call on the international community to take concrete steps to protect the lives and rights of Palestinians.

08/06/2026

This morning, Israel again closed Gaza hermetically, sealing the Strip to all entry of aid and other goods through the only previously functioning crossing, and blocking evacuation of medical patients and their companions and return of people stranded in Egypt. Israel claims the move was in response to the regional escalation, but its own land, air, and seaports remain open. It also said that the closure won’t affect access to food or the humanitarian situation, while the Strip continues to face an unprecedented, man-made crisis.

Some 1.7 million residents remain displaced, sheltering in tents or in the rubble of destroyed buildings, and there has been a rise in skin infections, due in part to the spread of insects, rodents, and other pests in densely populated areas. The UN reports numerous cases of children being bitten by rodents while sleeping.

Read more on Gisha's regularly updated data page, Gaza Now: Facts and Figures: https://gisha.org/en/gaza-now-facts-and-figures/

02/06/2026

"مرة قالت لي [سيدة] في جلستنا انها كانت بترجع أحيانًا للمنطقة الشرقية بحجة إنها تطمن على بيتها وتشوف إذا بعده بخير رغم انها كانت تعرف تمامًا انه البيت تدمر، لما سألتها ليش هيك بتعمل، اعترفت انها كانت تتمنى انه الجيش الإسرائيلي يطلق عليها النار حتى تتخلص من ثقل الحياة."

تقرير صادر عن "چيشاة-مسلك" و"برنامج غزة للصحة النفسية" يروي قصص نساء ومحدودية امكانيات وصولهن إلى خدمات الصحة النفسية خلال عامين من الحرب على القطاع، من خلال افادات مهنيات في مجال الصحة النفسية. استمعوا إلى شهادة إحدى المعالجات.

اقرأوا التقرير الكامل على موقع: https://features.gisha.org/a-safe-space-for-the-mind-3/

02/06/2026

“One case that won't leave me is of a woman who lost her son while he was in her arms. From the intensity of the shock and pain, she refused to release him for burial and held his body in her arms for two days.”

A report by Gisha and the Gaza Community Mental Health Programmetells the story of women’s access to mental health services during two years of attacks on the Strip through the eyes of mental health professionals. Listen to the testimony of one of them.

Read the report: https://features.gisha.org/a-safe-space-for-the-mind/

28/05/2026

"The conditioning of reconstruction on disarmament perpetuates the same collective punishment that has characterized Israel's war on Gaza since October 7."
Gisha ED Tania Hary responds to Board of Peace Envoy Nickolay Mladenov & others.

Rebuilding Civilian Life in Gaza Is an Obligation to a People That Has Endured More Than Two Years of Destruction, Not a Reward

19/05/2026

Israel’s attacks in Gaza continue. Since the “ceasefire” agreement came into effect, 877 people have been killed and 2,602 injured. Israel also continues to deepen its control over the Strip through its management of two demarcation lines, the Yellow and Orange lines which together account for 64 percent of the territory. Millions are crammed into an area that is less than half the territory. Read more in Gisha’s Gaza Now: Current Facts and Figures.
https://gisha.org/en/gaza-now-facts-and-figures/

17/05/2026

The Israeli army continues to hold more than half of Gaza’s territory, using deadly force on anyone approaching or crossing its Yellow demarcation line and concentrating the population into the remaining areas under inhumane conditions. It recently issued an updated map designating the Orange Line, behind which international organizations must coordinate their movements in an additional 11 percent of the territory.

A new factsheet by Gisha provides information about the two demarcation lines, their impact on the civilian population and the humanitarian response, as well as a brief legal analysis.

Israel is seizing direct control over additional areas in the Strip via yet another demarcation line, and further harming the humanitarian response.