Gaza 'will not be liveable by 2020' - UN report

[Rami]

The Gaza Strip will not be "a liveable place" by 2020 unless action is taken to improve basic services in the territory, according to a UN report.
 Basic infrastructure in water, health, education and sanitation "is struggling to keep pace with a growing population", according to the report.
It estimates Gaza's population will rise from 1.6m to 2.1m by 2020.
Israel tightened a blockade on Gaza after the Islamist movement Hamas came to power in the territory in 2007.
Israel says the blockade, which is policed with Egyptian co-operation and has never been fully lifted, is necessary to prevent weapons reaching Hamas.
The UN report estimates Gaza will need double the number of schools and 800 more hospital beds by 2020, and says the territory is already suffering from a housing shortage.
The report also says the coastal aquifer, the territory's only natural source of fresh water, may become unusable by 2016.
 
Disconnected territory

UN officials point to the difficulty of improving the situation given "the closure of the Gaza Strip, violent conflict, and the pressing need for Palestinian reconciliation".
"An urban area cannot survive without being connected," said Maxwell Gaylard, the UN's humanitarian chief in Gaza.
Gaza has no air or sea ports, and the economy is heavily dependent on outside funding and smuggling through tunnels under the Egyptian border.
Even though Gaza has experienced some economic growth in recent years, the report says it "does not seem to be sustainable" and finds that Gazans are worse off now than in the 1990s.
Unemployment was at 29% in 2011 and has risen since then, particularly affecting women and young people.
Traffic through the cross-border tunnels was hit in recent weeks by violence between Egyptian security forces and militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, which borders Israel and Gaza.
More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19391809

THIS IS NOT THE TOPIC TO DISCUSS THE CONFLICT.

[Squeak]

Systematic oppression, starvation, and eradication.

[Gandalf]

Refusing to co-exist is not going to improve this.

[Alan.Wake]

Refusing to co-exist is not going to improve this.

Neither did co-existing ever worked between the Jews and Muslims.

[Gandalf]

Neither did co-existing ever worked between the Jews and Muslims.

There are many Muslims living in Israel without any problem.

[Tomer]

Thanks for the awesome news, and Gandalf is right.

[Ragdoll]

There are many Muslims living in Israel without any problem.

For now. :poke:

[Dolfagr]

Neither did co-existing ever worked between the Jews and Muslims.

Jews and Muslims fought together against the Crusaders, and they were co- existing pretty good in the Middle ages. The only problem is the Islamists and the Ultra Orthodox Jews who like to cause shit in the area, and the majority of them are Islamists to be fair.

[Doctor]

Fmmm

[Huntsman]

Ok... So, Jews are now playing victims of the nazi regime, when yet, they do exactly the same thing to palestinians and those in Gaza? Please...

[Nathan]

Ok... So, Jews are now playing victims of the nazi regime, when yet, they do exactly the same thing to palestinians and those in Gaza? Please...

You're kidding me right?

[Mikal]

The whole world will have these problems by 2030, since the human race grows everyday, theres more births than deaths..

[Ehks]

You're kidding me right?

No. They're worse.

Lol everyone keeps blaming Palestine. Now I know why they invented the holy /facepalm.

Rami nchallah kher :/...

Post Merge: August 28, 2012, 05:11:09 pm

Thanks for the awesome news, and Gandalf is right.

Awesome News?  I usually respect opinions but yours just fucked up.

[Rami]

Thanks for the awesome news, and Gandalf is right.

Yet they claim peace.

The whole world will have these problems by 2030, since the human race grows everyday, theres more births than deaths..

No, not the whole world.
Probably you're one of those spoiled westerns who will face these problems maybe in hundreds of years from now, not soon. Don't forge the technological difference.

You're kidding me right?

Israelis are even worse than you can imagine.

There are many Muslims living in Israel without any problem.

You've no idea about how many warnings Palestinians (Who still living in their land) receive daily about destroying their houses, every single day.

[Gandalf]

Ok... So, Jews are now playing victims of the nazi regime, when yet, they do exactly the same thing to palestinians and those in Gaza? Please...

If they would do the same thing, they would deport them to Jordan, which was formed to accomodate them, and kill the ones left.
The reports might be correct, but one must see the origins. People refuse to maintain their infrastructure and pollute their own water source, then request help. As soon as the new Egyptian regime proposed a lower border control, soldiers were attacked as smugglers saw their business go down.
I am sure there are many good people living their, who would just love to live without the fear of bombs going off or some goods being closed out for a long time.
Unfortunately a small number of over-religious idiots on both sides spoil this and manage to keep the hate going.
There are two solutions. Either both sides start recognizing the rights of the other to exist, or lets move all Palestnian people out of those areas and give them some land in Siberia. Sure its cold, but nobody would disturb them.