UN warns Gaza 'will not liveable by 2020'

[88m3]

The Gaza Strip will not be "liveable" by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, according to the United Nations' most comprehensive report on the Palestinian territory.

"Action needs to be taken now if Gaza is to be a liveable place in 2020 and it is already difficult now," UN humanitarian co-ordinator Maxwell Gaylard told journalists when the report was released on Monday.

"[Palestinians] are under blockade. They are under occupation and they need our help both politically and practically on the ground"

- Maxwell Gaylard,
UN humanitarian co-ordinator

"The population of the Gaza Strip will increase from 1.6 million people today to 2.1 million people in 2020, resulting in a density of more than 5,800 people per square kilometre," a UN statement quoted the report as saying.

Infrastructure across a number of sectors - electricity, water and sanitation, and municipal and social services - is "not keeping pace with the needs of the growing population," it said.

The UN says only a quarter of Gaza waste water is treated. The rest, including raw sewage, goes into the Mediterranean Sea.

Even now the coastal strip, under an Israeli blockade of varying intensity since 2006, is suffering from its worst-ever fuel shortage and resultant power cuts, as well as from unemployment levels of around 45 per cent.

The UN said the demand for drinking water was projected to increase by 60 per cent over the next eight years, "while damage to the aquifer, the major water source, would become irreversible without remedial action now".

It added that more than 440 additional schools, 800 hospital beds and more than 1,000 doctors would be needed by 2020.

'Under blockade'

Israel first imposed a blockade on Gaza in June 2006 after fighters there kidnapped one of its soldiers, who was only freed last October in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.
Gaza blockade has been eased somewhat but severe restrictions on movement remain in place [EPA]

It was tightened a year later after the Hamas movement seized power, ousting forces loyal to the Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

The blockade has been eased somewhat but severe restrictions on movement remain in place.

The people in the narrow coastal strip live mainly on UN aid, foreign funding and a tunnel economy which brings in food, construction materials, electronics and cars from Egypt.

Gaylard called on international donors to increase their aid to a population which is 80 per cent aid dependent.

"Despite their best efforts the Palestinians in Gaza still need help," he said. "They are under blockade. They are under occupation and they need our help both politically and practically on the ground."

He said Gaza needs peace and security to improve the lives of its people. "It will certainly have to mean the end of blockade, the end of isolation and the end of conflict."

But there is as yet no sign of an end to the conflict between Hamas and Israel.

UN warns Gaza 'will not liveable by 2020' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English


Well if this is the case they should be repatriated to Jordan.

 

[john goodman]

Gaza should go to egypt

West bank to Jordan

Significant aid to both countries for taking the new land/ people

Big $$ to Israeli Muslims to emigrate there

 

[zerozero]

Gaza should go to egypt

West bank to Jordan

Significant aid to both countries for taking the new land/ people

Big $$ to Israeli Muslims to emigrate there

Okay. And what do the actual human beings there think about that?

 

[88m3]

Gaza should go to egypt

West bank to Jordan

Significant aid to both countries for taking the new land/ people

Big $$ to Israeli Muslims to emigrate there

GAZA AND THE WEST BANK ARE ALREADY GETTING BIG MONEY BUT THEY SPEND THE MONEY RECKLESSLY AND DON"T USE IT TO BETTER PEOPLES LIVES.


LET THE PEOPLE OF THESE PLACES START A NEW IN JORDAN AND EGYPT WHERE THEY WILL LIVE WELL!

 

[TLOL is back]

GAZA AND THE WEST BANK ARE ALREADY GETTING BIG MONEY BUT THEY SPEND THE MONEY RECKLESSLY AND DON"T USE IT TO BETTER PEOPLES LIVES.


LET THE PEOPLE OF THESE PLACES START A NEW IN JORDAN AND EGYPT WHERE THEY WILL LIVE WELL!

Last time the Jordanians let the Palestinians in, the Palestinians tried to take it over.

And last time the Lebanese let them in, they occupied Southern parts of Lebanon and caused so many problems that a Civil War between the Christians and Muslims there broke out which left over 100,000 dead.

They have done a wonderful job at biting the hands that feed them and causing death and destruction wherever they go.

 

[Techniec]

well all of these states are artificial constructs, there really is no such thing as a fukin Jordan.

All of this is really one Syria anyways.

But all of this is just moot, the Israelis have a state in the former British Palestine, so should the Arabs

Palestine= WB, Gaza, East Jerusalem

and last time they let zee Jews in, 33% of the population wanted 57% of the land

but again this is all moot, by the time I hit 75, the Arabs will have been cleansed

 

[Techniec]

Big $$ to Israeli Muslims to emigrate there

so you and your buddies from Philly can return "home" I bet?

 

[TLOL is back]

by the time I hit 75, the Arabs will have been cleansed

 

[88m3]

Last time the Jordanians let the Palestinians in, the Palestinians tried to take it over.

And last time the Lebanese let them in, they occupied Southern parts of Lebanon and caused so many problems that a Civil War between the Christians and Muslims there broke out which left over 100,000 dead.

They have done a wonderful job at biting the hands that feed them and causing death and destruction wherever they go.

It sounds like the Palestinians can't get along well with others.

well all of these states are artificial constructs, there really is no such thing as a fukin Jordan.

All of this is really one Syria anyways.

But all of this is just moot, the Israelis have a state in the former British Palestine, so should the Arabs

Palestine= WB, Gaza, East Jerusalem

and last time they let zee Jews in, 33% of the population wanted 57% of the land

but again this is all moot, by the time I hit 75, the Arabs will have been cleansed

Well these 'artificial constructs' are very real

Maye after things calm down in Syria; Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon can become one.




Using the same logic should the British have part of of the pie?

 

[Techniec]

History repeats itself, those borders will be redrawn.

And fukk the british

 

[thekingsmen]

There isn't going to many places on earth livable by that time anyways.

 

[killacal]

3 trolls having a conversation with each other

 

[Tom]

 

[FAH1223]

Jordan and Egypt had those territories from 1948-1967. Palestinians don't want that.

 

[MBwithadream]

well all of these states are artificial constructs, there really is no such thing as a fukin Jordan.

All of this is really one Syria anyways.

But all of this is just moot, the Israelis have a state in the former British Palestine, so should the Arabs

Palestine= WB, Gaza, East Jerusalem

and last time they let zee Jews in, 33% of the population wanted 57% of the land

but again this is all moot, by the time I hit 75, the Arabs will have been cleansed

I thought you were a Arab.