[itaspCatCriny]

The Gaza Strip will not be "a liveable place" by 2020 unless action is taken to improve basic services in the territory, according to a UN report.


Basic infrastructure in water, health, education and sanitation "is struggling to keep pace with a growing population", according to the report.

It estimates Gaza's population will rise from 1.6m to 2.1m by 2020.

Israel tightened a blockade on Gaza after the Islamist movement Hamas came to power in the territory in 2007.

Israel says the blockade, which is policed with Egyptian co-operation and has never been fully lifted, is necessary to prevent weapons reaching Hamas.

The UN report estimates Gaza will need double the number of schools and 800 more hospital beds by 2020, and says the territory is already suffering from a housing shortage.

The report also says the coastal aquifer, the territory's only natural source of fresh water, may become unusable by 2016.


Disconnected territory

UN officials point to the difficulty of improving the situation given "the closure of the Gaza Strip, violent conflict, and the pressing need for Palestinian reconciliation".

"An urban area cannot survive without being connected," said Maxwell Gaylard, the UN's humanitarian chief in Gaza.

Gaza has no air or sea ports, and the economy is heavily dependent on outside funding and smuggling through tunnels under the Egyptian border.

Even though Gaza has experienced some economic growth in recent years, the report says it "does not seem to be sustainable" and finds that Gazans are worse off now than in the 1990s.

Unemployment was at 29% in 2011 and has risen since then, particularly affecting women and young people.

Traffic through the cross-border tunnels was hit in recent weeks by violence between Egyptian security forces and militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, which borders Israel and Gaza.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19391809

[yPuqQ248]

Disturbing, however what I find most fascinating is that in the midst of all that this is to be found -

http://www.rootsclub.ps/

[itaspCatCriny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKNtT...eature=related

I don't doubt the U.N. report. Perhaps its proof of the old saying, 'life goes on'

[yPuqQ248]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKNtT...eature=related

I don't doubt the U.N. report. Perhaps its proof of the old saying, 'life goes on'

I don't doubt that UN report either, but ya gotta admit - it's QUITE a contrast.

[gugamotina]

Does Egypt still have their open border policy? I lost track of that scenario.

[Thorwaywhobia]

i would say, Gaza is not live-able now.

it is a concentration camp run by Israel.

[SerycegeBunny]

^ how do you know? I've seen nothing in the ZSM saying such about Gaza?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3DIrXd33SI

[itaspCatCriny]

i would say, Gaza is not live-able now.

it is a concentration camp run by Israel.

Gundriller

This is a rather short thread, try reading it before posting.

"Gaza's population will rise from 1.6m to 2.1m by 2020."

This isn't possible under concentration like conditions.

I'm not saying that life in Gaza isn't operating under the heavy hand of zionism, but inbetween the air strikes and such, life goes on.

Do you doubt the U.N. report?

[gamecasta]

Gundriller

This is a rather short thread, try reading it before posting.

"Gaza's population will rise from 1.6m to 2.1m by 2020."

This isn't possible under concentration like conditions.

Are the counting kike settlements in that figure?

[Thorwaywhobia]

Gundriller

This is a rather short thread, try reading it before posting.

"Gaza's population will rise from 1.6m to 2.1m by 2020."

This isn't possible under concentration like conditions.

I'm not saying that life in Gaza isn't operating under the heavy hand of zionism, but inbetween the air strikes and such, life goes on.

Do you doubt the U.N. report?

i'm saying it's one of the most unlive-able, oppressive ghetto's on the planet.

because of Israeli Apartheid & Israeli racism.