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Source: www.reuters.com...
In all, at least 45% of Gaza's housing units had reportedly been damaged or destroyed.
OCHA said 279 educational facilities had reportedly been damaged, more than 51% of the total, with none of Gaza's 625,000 students able to access education.
According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, as of Nov. 16, only nine of the enclave's 35 hospitals in Gaza were partially functioning. The rest have shut down formal medical services.
OCHA said 55 ambulances in Gaza had been damaged, with critical shortages reported of drugs and blood products.
The seawater desalination plant in Khan Younis in the south was operating at 5% of its capacity, UNRWA said, while the two water pipelines from Israel were operating. In the north of the territory, the water desalination plant and the Israeli pipeline are not functioning.
Most of Gaza's 65 sewage pumps were out of service, and raw sewage has started to flow in the streets.
On Nov. 16, Gaza's telecommunications services shut down after fuel used to run generators ran out.
In the north of Gaza, no bakeries had been active since Nov. 7 due to the lack of fuel, water, wheat flour, and structural damage. It said the last functioning mill in Gaza was destroyed on Nov. 15.
"The situation is catastrophic," OCHA said.
Should we expect Israel and global supporters of the Palestinian people to shoulder the costs of rebuilding GAZA...the sewer/water lines and everything above them?
OCHA said 279 educational/Hamas weapon storage facilities had reportedly been damaged, more than 51% of the total, with none of Gaza's 625,000 students able to access education.
originally posted by: TheWhat
Hamas
a reply to: WeMustCare
originally posted by: kwaka
One plan is for a new shipping canal, things are going to get blown up a lot more to dig that out. Israel is the one taking the land, they are the ones building what they want.
Israel gets to decide what happens to the Gaza "strip" as its called.
The spoils of war.Start your crap,lose also means lose your land.See Eygpt for details.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
originally posted by: kwaka
One plan is for a new shipping canal, things are going to get blown up a lot more to dig that out. Israel is the one taking the land, they are the ones building what they want.
I've heard several times that Israel owns the GAZA land area is just letting the Palestinians "squat" there. If true, then yep..Israel gets to decide what happens to the Gaza "strip" as its called.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
Should we expect Israel and global supporters of the Palestinian people to shoulder the costs of rebuilding GAZA...the sewer/water lines and everything above them?
It is difficult to understand how on a conspiracy board, so few people understand international finance,
Reserves of natural gas were found offshore the Gaza Strip in the year 2000, within the framework of licensing to British Gas by the Palestinian National Authority.[1] The discovered gas field Gaza Marine, though mediocre in size, had been considered at the time as one of the possible drives to boost Palestinian economy and promote regional cooperation.
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In 1999, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak set aside exploration of Gaza's offshore resources for a future Palestinian state, with no prior consultation with Israel stipulated.[3] According to Michael Schwartz, Barak deployed the Israeli navy in Gaza's coastal waters to impede the implementation of the terms of the modest contract between the Palestinian Authority and British Gas (BG) to develop Gaza's Mediterranean gas resources.[5] Israel demanded that the Gaza gas be piped to facilities on its territory, and at a price below the prevailing market level[6] and that Israel also control all the (relatively modest) revenues destined for the Palestinians — to prevent the money from being used to "fund terror." In Schwartz's view, with this Israeli action the Oslo Accords were officially doomed, because by declaring Palestinian control over gas revenues unacceptable, the Israeli government committed itself to not accepting even the most limited kind of Palestinian budgetary autonomy, let alone full sovereignty. In Schwartz's view, since no Palestinian government or organization would agree to this, a future filled with armed conflict was assured.
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With no infrastructure remaining in the Gaza strip, The Humanitarian crisis is now so great that U.N. countries must shoulder the burden of evacuating the few remaining Gazans, with no guarantee of returning.