UN: Gaza in State of Physical, Psychological Collapse

UN: Gaza in State of Physical, Psychological Collapse

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The Israeli blockade of Gaza has been going on for 30 months. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which cares for one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, says the territory is receiving only 20 percent of the goods it got before the blockade was imposed.

UNRWA says the ongoing blockade of Gaza's borders has caused the private sector to collapse and unemployment and poverty to rise to unprecedented levels.

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The United Nations reports the houses of 325,000 people were destroyed or damaged during the war that erupted between Israel and Hamas militants more than a year ago. An estimated 20,000 people continue to live in temporary housing.

Ging says Israel refuses to let cement, steel rods and other reconstruction material enter the Gaza Strip because it fears they would be used by Hamas to build bunkers.

"There is no point in just continuously saying hypothetically this might happen or that might happen or it might fall into the wrong hands or whatever. The bottom line is we have put forward our plans. We are ready to go," he declared. "Let us go on with it and the cement that comes to the United Nations to build a school, there will be a physical school at the end of this process or there will not. If there is a physical school, then we have done out job properly. If there is not, then we should be held accountable for that. That is what we now need to do," he said.

Ging says attitudes among the Palestinians will continue to harden and become more hostile if reconstruction cannot get underway. He warns this will be counterproductive to Israel's objective of achieving stability and security.

What's happening in Gaza is sad indeed. No amount of condemnation is less. I think lesson of Holocaust should be applied to Palestine.



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A simple and creative way to highlight the Gazans plight and shame the Israelis using their own oft-cited holocaust rhetoric..

All Gazans should take to wearing yellow cloth stars on their outer clothing to identify themselves to remind their oppressors of their own history of repression, sanctions, and ethnic apartheid during their plight of events such as Kristalnacht and detainment in the ghettoes that they demand the rest of the world to recognise, yet reenact in their own back yard.

The state of Israel is acting in just the same way as an individual who has been sexually/physically abused in early life...the nation has grown up to become an abuser in its own right.

If the nation demands that the world recognises their plight during thsoe times in history, then let their history be recognised, but by the same methods of denigration by those whom are in turn oppressed

good. THe more civilians that can be forced to leave the area the better. This farce has gone on long enough. This is what happens when you try appease those out to destroy you. there is no compromise with these people; best it be done with now while it is still possible.