The three year old blockade, which has been enforced by both Jewish Israel and Islamic Egypt, has been a joint effort designed to impede the violent radical Hamas government in Gaza from importing weapons and fighters.
Though the confrontational behaviors of the Hamas government have led to severe hardships for residents of Gaza, it continues to successfully recruit sympathy in the international community while also provoking incidents. Hamas continues to show no inclination towards peace and refuses to stop recruiting fighters to fire rockets into the nearby civilian neighborhoods in Israel. Read more: