Gaza – More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population lives under the poverty line as a result of the 16-year Israeli blockade imposed on the coastal enclave, a Geneva-based human rights group said in its annual report on Monday. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, an NGO founded by Gazan human rights advocate Ramy Abdu, “about 1,500,00 Gazans have become impoverished amid the Israeli siege.” In 2006, Israel imposed itsillegal siege on the coastal enclave as Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group, won a general election in the Palestinian Territories. Their electoral succes…