Gaza Seaport plans
Gaza Seaport is a planned seaport in the
Seaport plans in the peace process
The 1993
1994/2000 PA plan
In 1994, the Dutch Government committed some NLG45 million (circa €23 million) to the Gaza Sea Port project; France committed additional US$20 million. The same year, the
On 20 April 2000, the parties signed a new contract. Phase one of the project started on 18 July.[6] The construction was halted, as Israel refused to facilitate the supply of needed construction materials.[7] On 17 and 18 September 2000, Israeli tanks destroyed the project site.[8] In October, Israel bombed the building site in response to an incident in Ramallah. Following this, the Donor States ceased funding the project and the work on the port stopped.[9]
2011 Israeli plan
In March 2011, Israeli transport minister
Katz said that the project would free Israel of responsibility for controlling commerce with Gaza and "aims at a total break with the Gaza Strip, while now Israel continues to be responsible for the trade of this area because we have not permitted the building of a port and airport" ... "would allow us to break all ties with Gaza while maintaining our control over maritime security through the blockade, which is critical in blocking arms traffic" [and the plan would allow Israel] "to take the initiative, gain international support and open a political horizon on the key question of Gaza, without having to rely on Hamas."[11]
Environmentalists and Palestinian officials described the venture as "fantasy" and "madness", and accused the minister of political opportunism. A PA spokesman said that there were many simpler measures to improve the lives of Palestinians. "If they want to help Palestinians, they must end the siege on Gaza, and allow the reintegration of the West Bank and Gaza and the establishment of a Palestinian state. Then they are welcome to make proposals."[10]
2014 PA plan
In February 2014, Palestinian Transportation Minister Nabil Dmeidi revealed that the Palestinian Authority and Egypt have been working on plans for building two airports in the West Bank, as well as a seaport in the Gaza Strip and a railway line between the Gaza Strip and Cairo. The transport ministry has signed a protocol of cooperation with Egypt's civil aviation authority to benefit from Egyptian expertise. The plans included the building of an airport east of Jericho and a second smaller one, somewhere in Area C.[12][13]
In May 2014, the
Port of Gaza City
Currently, Gaza only has a small port in Gaza City, the Port of Gaza. It is the home port of Palestinian fishing-boats and the Palestinian naval police. The Port of Gaza has been under Israeli siege since 2007, when Israel imposed a strict blockade on Gaza.
2024 United States military plan
In 2024, in response to concerns over the risk of
References
- ^ Agreed documents by Israel and Palestinians on Movement and Access from and to Gaza Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine. "Agreement on Movement and Access" and "Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing", 15 November 2005
- ^ Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP), Annex III, Art. 5. 13 September 1993. From the Knesset website
- ^ Gaza-Jericho Agreement, Annex I, Article XI
- ^ Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum, Art. 6. 4 September 1999
- ^ Palestinian territories – Review of the Netherlands development programme for the Palestinian territories, 1994-1999, IOB-evaluation no. 282, pp. 32, 34, 37-38. Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 1999
- ^ Power Point Presentation of the project
- ^ Freedom of movement a year after disengagement. IMEU, 16 August 2006
- ^ Gaza Commercial Seaport. University Gent (Belgium), May 2013. Power Point
- ^ One Big Prison—Freedom of Movement to and from theGaza Strip on the Eve of the Disengagement Plan, p. 60. HaMoked and B’Tselem, March 2005. Summary on UNISPAL
- ^ a b Israel may build artificial island off Gaza Strip coast. Conal Urquhart, The Guardian, 30 March 2011
- ^ a b Israel planning to build island off Gaza Strip for port. Agence France-Presse (The National), 31 March 2011
- ^ PA plans airport in West Bank, seaport and railway in Gaza.Ma'an News, 10 February 2014
- ^ Palestinians plan airports in West Bank, seaport and railway in Gaza. Haaretz, 10 February 2014
- ^ Working Paper: Gaza Seaport, A Windowpane to the World. Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, 16 May 2014. Here available
- ^ Ward, Alexander (7 March 2024). "Biden to order US military to construct port in Gaza to increase aid flow". POLITICO. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ Magdy, Samy; Sewell, Abby; Madhani, Aamer; Knickmeyer, Ellen (8 March 2024). "Biden orders US military to set up temporary aid port for Gaza as famine threatens". Associated Press. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Debusmann, Bernd (13 March 2024). "How the US military plans to construct a pier and get food into Gaza". BBC News. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
External links
- Managerial Obstacles Facing the Gaza Seaport Project. Dissertation Mahmoud Zakaria Al-Madhoun, May 2007