"Luxury" Pasta & Coriander May Flow, But Gaza Blockade Will Stay

Netanyahu Pledges to Tighten Gaza Siege

Local Editor


After the worldwide call for "Israel" to lift the three-year Gaza siege, or allow food and humanitarian goods into the strip, the Zionist regime announced that it would issue a new "banned goods" list for Gaza.

Meanwhile, Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a pledge that the move would actually "tighten" the blockade.

However, he assured that "dual use" goods would continue to be barred from Gaza.

The occupation regime has previously included shoes and clothing in the "dual use" list.

The occupation military placed a 100% ban on all importation of shoes and clothing to the strip for years arguing that any clothing might be used as part of a military uniform and therefore had a military use."

Yet it has announced it will release a revised list of "banned" goods from entering Gaza.

The list considers "liberalizing" the old list. It will remove the ban on certain foods, like chocolate and spread margarine, which "Israel" previously considered too luxurious to permit into the strip.
Toys and pencils that were banned from reaching the strip will be allowed in.

Officials say that the new list allows luxury goods like pasta and coriander in.

However, the Zionist government is still silent on whether it will allow cement into the strip.

The regime has barred Cement into Gaza, which prevented the rebuilding process after the Zionist aggression against Gaza in December 2008.