Characterizing a blockade as a "siege" sounds to me like propaganda, particularly w/o mentioning that several of the checkpoints on the Gaza border with Egypt were controlled by Egypt (not Israel) ....or a failure to acknowledge that Israel allowed humanitarian aide at various time during the blockade (the UN World Food Programme had been coordinated emergency food deliveries into Gaza for months, only to have it not delivered to those in need because of fear of being attacked by Hamas militia - whose goal is to use the blockade for political purposes) ....or that the blockade would have been lifted with one simple action by Hamas - an end to the four years (since the Israeli unilateral withdrawal) of indiscriminate rocket attacks into Israeli civilian areas.

Listing casualty counts w/o indicating that the vast majority were Hamas militia and not innocent civilians or that many of the civilian deaths resulted from the Hamas human rights violation of using them as human shields is intellectually dishonest, IMO