Publish date2 Sep 2015 - 16:03
Story Code : 203733
A new UN report

Gaza becoming uninhabitable as society and economy collapse

TNA - LONDON
Wars and economic blockade have wiped out capacity to produce for domestic or export market while leaving ‘almost all of population destitute’, says UN body
Gaza becoming uninhabitable as society and economy collapse
Wars and economic blockade have wiped out capacity to produce for domestic or export market while leaving ‘almost all of population destitute’, says UN body

According to Taghrib news reporter(TNA) in London,Britain's newspaper wrote: A United Nations report says Gaza could be “uninhabitable” in less than five years if current economic trends continue.
In this connection The Guardian newspaper reported that,findings by the UN Conference on Trade and Development point to the eight years of economic blockade of Gaza as well as the three wars between Israel and the Palestinians over the past six years.

The 2014 war displaced half a million people and left parts of Gaza destroyed.

War “has effectively eliminated what was left of the middle class, sending almost all of the population into destitution and dependence on international humanitarian aid”, the new report says.
Also the Telegraph newspaper wrote:"Gaza’s GDP dropped 15% in 2014 and unemployment reached a record high of 44%, while 72% of households were food insecure."says UN body
The wars had shattered Gaza’s ability to export and produce for the domestic market and left no time for reconstruction, the report said. It noted that Gaza’s “de-development” had been accelerated.

The report comes as Egyptian military bulldozers press ahead with a project that effectively would fill Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip with water and flood the last remaining cross-border underground smuggling tunnels, which have brought both commercial items and weapons into Gaza.
The report calls the economic prospects for 2015 for the Palestinian territories “bleak” because of the unstable political situation, reduced aid and the slow pace of reconstruction.




 
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