Gaza not "liveable" by 2020
livable in 2020 and it is already difficult now," UN humanitarian coordinator Maxwell Gaylard said while releasing the report. Five years after an Israeli blockade supported by Egypt, and living under one-party rule, Gaza's population of 1.6 million is
increase of 500,000 over the next eight years, say the authors of the report more wideranging UN on the territory. Gaza has
the youngest populations in the world, with 51 percent of those aged under 18 since 07, Gaza has been under the control of the Islamist Hamas organization , an armed political movement which rejects permanent peace with Israel.
people in the narrow coastal strip live mainly on UN aid, foreign funding and a tunnel economy which brings in food, building materials, electronics and cars from Egypt. Robert Turner, director of operations of the United Nations Relief and UN work
(UNRWA), said Gaza by 2020 will need 440 more schools, 800 hospital beds and more than 1000 additional doctors. Gaylard called on international donors to increase their aid to a population that is 80 percent dependent on aid
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