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(IsraelNN.com) The High Court of Justice is scheduled to meet in an emergency session Sunday to discuss the Gaza blockade implemented by the government in response to massive rocket attacks on Israeli communities emanating from the region.

The Gisha and Adalah human rights organizations petitioned the court to issue an injunction against the blockade, which cut fuel to Gaza’s electricity generator. The Gaza generator supplies only 25 percent of the area’s electricity. The petitioners claim the blockade has ignited a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and constitutes “collective punishment.”

Israel provides 70 percent of the Arabs' electricity, and Egypt provides 5 percent, in the region via their national electric grids. Butane cooking gas and diesel fuel deliveries were resumed to the area last Tuesday, along with deliveries of medicine. Patients with exceptional medical needs are being transported into Israel through one of the crossings.