{"id":20405,"date":"2025-07-17T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=20405"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:17:48","slug":"gazas-deadly-heatwave-and-israels-ban-on-the-sea-starvation-siege-and-a-stripped-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/07\/17\/gazas-deadly-heatwave-and-israels-ban-on-the-sea-starvation-siege-and-a-stripped-lifeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza\u2019s Deadly Heatwave and Israel\u2019s Ban on the Sea: Starvation, Siege, and a Stripped Lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watan<\/strong><\/em>-With temperatures in Gaza forecast to hit a record 37\u00b0C, the Israeli army\u2019s Arabic-language spokesperson issued an urgent warning at the beginning of the week: \u201cEntering the sea is forbidden. Violators risk immediate danger to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, in a reality where nearly all Gazans have been displaced from their homes. Hundreds of thousands are crammed into tents or the ruins of destroyed buildings.<\/p>\n

To obtain food or aid, they must walk kilometers across sand and under the blazing sun. There is no electricity for air conditioning\u2014and no air conditioners to use anyway. Clean drinking water is scarce, and there is no escape from the sweltering heat.<\/p>\n

So, Gazans go to the sea\u2014to try to catch small fish to feed their families, wash, clean clothes, and simply find refuge from the suffocating heat.<\/p>\n

But everyone in Gaza knows: the sea is dangerous. It was dangerous even before the war, due to Israel\u2019s strict fishing zone limits. Now, it is seven times more dangerous.<\/p>\n

\"So,
With Gaza under a scorching heatwave and humanitarian collapse, Israel has banned residents from entering the sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the war began, dozens of people have been shot dead while at sea, most of them while trying to fish.\u201cFishermen told me they\u2019ve gotten used to joking with their families before heading out, saying things like: \u2018Today you\u2019ll either eat or bury me,\u2019\u201d said Zakaria Bakr, head of Gaza\u2019s Fishermen\u2019s Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the last fisherman killed by the Israeli navy just days before a ceasefire began. He hadn\u2019t gone more than 300 meters from the shore. It took us 10 days to retrieve his body\u2014the sea was too dangerous. The fish had eaten him. It was horrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa3 The Fishing Industry Destroyed<\/h3>\n

Gaza\u2019s fishing sector, once a key source of income and food security, has been almost completely destroyed by Israel in the current war.<\/p>\n

Air, sea, and land assaults have obliterated critical infrastructure\u2014fishing boats, fish farms, the Gaza fishing port. Even during ceasefires, Israel blocks fishermen from accessing the sea.<\/p>\n

Fish has become a luxury. Prices in Gaza have surged to 200 shekels per kilo, making it unaffordable to most.<\/p>\n

Between October 2023 and April 2024, income from fishing dropped by over 92%, falling to just 7.3% of its prewar levels, a $17.5 million loss\u2014and that doesn\u2019t include damage to fish farms.<\/p>\n

A Deliberate Starvation Policy?<\/h3>\n

Israel\u2019s restrictions on humanitarian aid and its destruction of food production\u2014especially fishing\u2014have exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Preventing sea access and targeting fishing are part of a broader strategy, described by critics as a policy of starvation: destroying self-sufficiency so that Israel can use its monopoly over aid entry as a tool of pressure and warfare.<\/p>\n

Under international law, as an occupying power and party to the war, Israel is obligated to provide for civilians\u2019 needs. It must cease attacks on fishermen and infrastructure, lift the sea ban, and allow the entry of essential equipment to rebuild the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss the sea\u2014everything about it,\u201d said Mohammed, a fisherman in his twenties, to Gisha (an Israeli rights group) during its research into Gaza\u2019s food system collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust getting the boat out… the waves… I miss it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s restrictions on humanitarian aid and its destruction of food production\u2014especially fishing\u2014have exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sea as Last Refuge from Collapse<\/h3>\n

The ban on sea access deprives Gazans not only of livelihood and food, but of a final escape from the heat.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s water, sanitation, and hygiene systems have nearly collapsed. Israel’s fuel restrictions have shut down wells and desalination plants. Even the basic human relief of washing or cooling off is now largely unavailable.<\/p>\n

What was once a source of survival\u2014the sea\u2014has now become a zone of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watan-With temperatures in Gaza forecast to hit a record 37\u00b0C, the Israeli army\u2019s Arabic-language spokesperson issued an urgent warning at the beginning of the week: \u201cEntering the sea is forbidden. Violators risk immediate danger to life.\u201d This, in a reality where nearly all Gazans have been displaced from their homes. 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