# PALESTINE /// The Economical Means of Resistance for Gaza against the Blockade
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One should not restrain Gaza’s economy to the simple clandestinity, and by extension, one should certainly not assume that every inhabitant of Gaza is involved in the resistance against the Israeli blockade they have to suffer from. That is to say that the photos in this article do not depict the common life that people of Gaza experiences every day. However, such economy does exists and allows the importation of goods from Egypt which eases the lack of supplies in the Gaza strip. The means of transportation between Egypt and Gaza are insured by the several tunnels set up below the border and the no-construction zone set-up by the Israeli army in which the IDF bulldozers regularly comes to dig the earth. On the contrary of the tunnels of Cu Chi (Vietnam) that I briefly evoked in a recent article, those tunnels are strictly dedicated to the flux of goods between one territory and another in order to resist at an economical level. It is well known that the fruit international exportation from Gaza suffers from the disloyal competition against Israeli products. The Palestinian production needs to transit via Israel to reach other countries and it often spent several days at Ben Gurion airport -Gaza’s airport having been destroyed in 2002- before being transported out of the region, thus partially loosing quality. The internal economy is therefore very important in the Palestinian region which suffers from a 45% unemployment rate precisely because of the blockade.
To know more about the territorial struggle that Gaza faces every day, see the always very informative maps from the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs
The photographs presented in this article were gathered by Preeti Aroon in a photo dossier for Foreign Policy.
See also the film Rue Abu Jamil by Alexis Monchovet & Stéphane Marchetti that I previously described in an article.
On this last picture, it is important to note that the tunnel is being filled-in by the Palestinian police and not by the IDF (like on the two photos before the last one)