Gaza Could Become 'Uninhabitable' by 2020, UN Report Warns

[Little Tich]

Source: Haaretz

Eight years of economic blockade and three wars with Israel in six years accelerated de-development of Gaza Strip, UN Conference on Trade and Development report says.

A new United Nations report says Gaza could be "uninhabitable" in less than five years if current economic trends continue.

The report released Tuesday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development points to the eight years of economic blockade of Gaza as well as the three wars between Israel and the Palestinians there over the past six years.

Last year's war displaced half a million people and left parts of Gaza destroyed.

The 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.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.674064

Link to UNCTAD press release: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/PressRelease.aspx?OriginalVersionID=260

[shira]

1. Hamas should invest in the economy, homes, schools rather than war...

....and attack tunnels into Israel.

[FlatBaroque]

3. they're like little snakes, right?

[shira]

5. No, it means Hamas is hurting its people, and quite deliberately

Because they care more about their war on the Jews than they do for the welfare of Palestinians

[FlatBaroque]

8. Yes, it's quite an impressive war on the Jews that Hamas is prosecuting.

Yet somehow Palestinians children keep getting blown up. I know, I know, it's Hamas' fault that the "Most Moral Army In The World" keeps dropping bombs on their homes. And it's Hamas' fault that a little toddler was roasted alive in his home. Yes. It's their fault. Sleep tight.

[oberliner]

10. Hamas Takes Responsibility for Attack, Says Bombers Came From Hebron (2008)

Lyubov Razdolskaya was killed and 11 people were injured in a double suicide bombing in a Dimona shopping center yesterday morning. One bomber died in the blast, and the other was shot dead by a police officer.

Hamas officially claimed responsibility for the attack and alleged that the bombers came to Dimona from Hebron. Several other Palestinian groups, whose credibility Israel doubts, also claimed responsibility.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/hamas-takes-responsibility-for-attack-says-bombers-came-from-hebron-1.238651

Thankfully such attacks have been fewer and fewer over the years.

Have you ever heard of The Passover Massacre?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_massacre

That was in 2002. The early 2000s saw a lot of Hamas terror attacks on Israeli civilians (children, seniors, etc).

[6chars]

13. Just because it is unimpressive, doesn't mean it didn't happen

When Hamas fired rockets at Israel from homes in Gaza, homes where they stored their arsenals, homes where they concealed terror tunnels for entering Israel with a goal of kidnapping and killing civilians, and these same homes where they laid booby traps galore -- even if you blame Israel for targeting these homes, could you just give Hamas a little bit of blame here? At least for making choices that did not benefit Gaza civilians?

[shira]

27. What do u think would happen if USA or UK was taking 1000's of rockets?

It also doesn't help that Hamas encourages & sometimes forces people to be human shields.

[6chars]

16. Wonder if Gaza would get a boost from calling for peace

Poor regions have turned it around pretty quickly if they are in strategic locations, with international investment that comes out of profit motive not just promises (that are rarely fulfilled) made out of guilt or for PR purposes.

[FlatBaroque]

2. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Then they will shrug their shoulders and say "who knows why they left, they just left, so of course we took this land".

[Hydra]

4. Yep, what I was going to say

All according to plan. Leave or die in installments.

[oberliner]

6. Israel dismantled all settlements and withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

There is no interest in returning there.

[Israeli]

7. What !!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are not serious oberliner.....are you ??

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/79102-150721-most-israeli-jews-favor-return-of-gaza-settlements-poll

http://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-pullout-commander-says-settlers-will-return-to-strip/

http://www.womeningreen.org/returntogushkatif.php

I sometimes think we live on a different planet .

The settlers never shut up about returning .

[oberliner]

9. Were you out of town that month?

Twelve Powerful Images From the Gaza Disengagement



http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.667736

It was quite an intense experience. There is no way the government is going to bring settlers back to Gaza. If you truly believe that, I don't know what planet you live on.

[Israeli]

11. no oberliner......

...I was not " out of town that month " .

were you in town that month ?

So you have moved the goalposts from " There is no interest in returning there. " to " no way the government is going to bring settlers back to Gaza. " ....which I never mentioned .
But come to think of it ......it would not surprise me in the least if this gov did .

Do you know any knitted kippa wearers oberliner ? .....the wearers of 'Orange' ....its all they talk about .....returning to the gush .

[Israeli]

14. " There is no way the government is going to bring settlers back to Gaza. " ....

Think you should give this a read oberliner :

10 Years Since Disengagement, Minister Vows: 'Jews Will Return'

Hundreds visit Sa-Nur, one of 4 towns in Samaria uprooted 10 years ago, call to correct the Disengagement 'mistake.'

Marking ten years to the town's destruction, hundreds of Israelis on Tuesday visited Sa-Nur, one of four Jewish communities in northern Samaria that was uprooted in the 2005 Disengagement plan that saw Gush Katif in Gaza emptied of Jews as well.

Science Minister Danny Danon (Likud) spoke to Arutz Sheva at the event, which was also attended by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud), Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud), MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home), and acting Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan.

"We are here in the Shomron (Samaria) where Jews were uprooted by the government ten years ago. It was a mistake - we need to acknowledge that it was a mistake and we need to correct it," said Danon.

"When you come to this place you ask yourself why Jews do not live here. I believe that in the near future we will see the Jewish families coming back to Sa-Nur, coming back to Homesh, coming back to our homeland here in the Shomron."

Dagan, who was himself expelled from Sa-Nur in 2005, spoke at the event and said "we will return here." He described the last days before the expulsion, and spoke about the bill that he is helping to advance which would repeal the Disengagement.

MK Magal, a member of the coalition, spoke out against the covert freeze on Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem which has been conducted by the government for roughly two years.

"We need to put things on the table: we've never experienced such a difficult period regarding construction," said Magal. "This is the deepest and most severe freeze that we've ever been in."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198442#.VexprtLUtki

[King_David]

15. Even though you are being pedantic, everything Oberliner said is 100% correct

Despite your "spin " on it.

LOL

[Israeli]

17. Which part KD ?

....this part ? .....quote : " There is no interest in returning there. "

and you think I live in a bubble ...........LOL.... back at you .

[King_David]

18. He was obviously talking about Israel in General

And not a few loony tunes individuals.

[Israeli]

19. You " obviously " missed my links .....

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/79102-150721-most-israeli-jews-favor-return-of-gaza-settlements-poll

http://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-pullout-commander-says-settlers-will-return-to-strip/

http://www.womeningreen.org/returntogushkatif.php

[King_David]

20. Never gonna happen. nt

[Israeli]

21. If its only .....

..." a few loony tunes individuals." .....then it will never happen.... will it KD ?

[King_David]

22. There was more security and less rockets when Gaza was occupied

So the sentiment is understandable.

But it's never going to happen.

[Israeli]

23. That is debatable KD ....

....what is not debatable is that oberliner made the statement :

" there is no interest in returning there. "

Either he is fooling himself or he is trying to fool this group .

Since he is avoiding answering ....I can only draw my own conclusions .

[King_David]

24. I was thinking how civil the conversation has been here recently

[Israeli]

25. As long as we all agree with you KD ?....

.....one big happy family ....

[King_David]

26. I'm not sure that's true

I can't remember you ever agreeing with me.

[bemildred]

12. Gaza is uninhabitable now.

A lot of people live there anyway, because they have no place else to go.