Michel Foucault remarks in Discipline and Punish that the hallmark of modern power is the capacity to regiment and control the movement of human subjects within and across territorial space. The Gaza Strip is arguably one of the most extreme examples of Foucault’s insight about the interplay of modern power and mobility. In Gaza, an entire population lives under conditions not only of a military occupation but also a blockade imposed on it primarily by the state of Israel that constrains and even prohibits the movement of people and goods in and out of the territory. At the same time, one of the basic freedoms codified in the UN Declaration of Human Rights affirms the right of individuals to circulate unimpeded within countries and across borders of different nation-states, rights considered by geographer Tim Cresswell as fundamental to the human condition. This paper seeks to profile specific features of the enclosed landscape in the Gaza Strip while outlining the impacts of the system of enclosure on economic life and the collective psyche of Gaza residents. The data for this project derives from fieldwork – interviews along with photographic work and first-hand observation — undertaken in the Gaza Strip during the past ten years but especially since 2014 in conjunction with the Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCMHP). This paper represents an effort to frame the foundations for a new book project on the enclosed landscape of Gaza that will continue themes from my recent book on this topic but will examine more systematically the stories of individual Gazans and their efforts to resist these conditions.