Since March 30, mass protests have engulfed the areas along the Israel-Gaza secu­ri­ty bar­ri­er. Ten thou­sand or more Pales­tin­ian pro­test­ers have gath­ered each Fri­day to call for an end to the 11-year block­ade by Israel and Egypt. The protests, dubbed the Great March of Return, are sched­uled to last until May 15, to mark the 70th anniver­sary of Israel’s Inde­pen­dence Day. Pales­tini­ans refer to the day as al-Nak­ba (The Cat­a­stro­phe), sig­ni­fy­ing the dis­place­ment of 750,000 peo­ple from their home­land in 1948.

Gaza has long been stained by death and vio­lence, and the protests have been no excep­tion. Israeli Secu­ri­ty Forces (ISF) have unleashed tear gas, sniper fire and rub­ber bul­lets on Pales­tin­ian pro­test­ers. May 14 was the most vio­lent day to date, with Israeli forces killing more than 50 Gazans and wound­ing thou­sands. The Israeli gov­ern­ment has jus­ti­fied its vio­lence by tying the protests to Hamas, but experts like Pales­tin­ian-Amer­i­can human-rights lawyer Noura Erakat say the protests are a grass­roots effort — and argue that polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions do not jus­ti­fy Israel’s armed attacks against a civil­ian population.

Thanks to the block­ade, a human­i­tar­i­an cri­sis has rav­aged Gaza. Two mil­lion Pales­tini­ans are trapped with lit­tle access to food, clean water or ser­vices. Sev­en­ty per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion relies on out­side human­i­tar­i­an aid, which dwin­dled when the Trump Admin­is­tra­tion cut $65 mil­lion in fund­ing to the Unit­ed Nations Relief and Works Agency, and then with­held $45 mil­lion in promised food aid to both Gaza and the West Bank.

Below is a sta­tis­ti­cal snap­shot of Gaza’s human­i­tar­i­an cri­sis and the vio­lent crack­down on protesters.

Gaza by the Numbers

2007 Year Israel imposed a land, air and sea block­ade on Gaza

76 % Reduc­tion in Gazan imports after the blockade

151 Import items, includ­ing cement and pipes, pro­hib­it­ed because of ​ “ dual use” for mil­i­tary purposes

84 % Por­tion of sup­plies for water, health and san­i­ta­tion infra­struc­ture denied by Israel, accord­ing to Oxfam

97 % Por­tion of drink­ing water in Gaza that is unsafe

6 – 8 Dai­ly hours of elec­tric­i­ty Israel sup­plies to Gaza

61 : 1 Ratio of Pales­tini­ans to Israelis killed in Gaza since 2009

181 Times between Jan­u­ary and March that ISF shot at Gazan fish­ers and farm­ers who strayed into ​ “ access restrict­ed areas,” killing two and wound­ing 13

35 , 000 Pales­tini­ans who ral­lied in Gaza March 30 , the first day of mass action against the blockade

101 Pro­test­ers killed in Gaza by Israeli secu­ri­ty forces since March 30 , as of May 14

8 , 400 Gazans wound­ed in the protests since March 30 , as of May 14

52 pro­test­ers killed and 2 , 400 wound­ed in a sin­gle day, May 14 , when Gazans protest­ed the relo­ca­tion of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv

2 Jour­nal­ists killed in the protests; 29 injured, accord­ing to reports by the Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists. All were Palestinian.