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Gaza 'unliveable' ten years after Hamas seized power: U.N.
Reuters ^ | July 11, 2017 | By Luke Baker

Posted on 07/11/2017 7:55:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A decade after the Islamist group Hamas seized Gaza, the Palestinian enclave is effectively unliveable for its 2 million people, with declining incomes, healthcare, education, electricity and fresh water, the United Nations said.

In a report examining humanitarian conditions in the territory, which Hamas took over in June 2007 after a brief conflict with forces loyal to the Palestinian Authority, the United Nations concludes the situation in Gaza is deteriorating "further and faster" than was forecast only a few years ago.

"Across the board we're watching de-development in slow motion," Robert Piper, the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

"Every indicator, from energy to water to healthcare to employment to poverty to food insecurity, every indicator is declining. Gazans have been going through this slow motion de-development now for a decade."

"I see this extraordinarily inhuman and unjust process of strangling gradually two million civilians in Gaza that really pose a threat to nobody," said Piper.

Asked who was doing the strangling, he replied:

"Everyone's having a go," mentioning internal Palestinian political strife, Israeli security policies that leave Gazans caught in the middle, and regional dynamics including pressure on Qatar, a major donor to Hamas, from Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; gazahamas; hamas; islam; islamists; muslim; terrorism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Aaaaand .... It’s the Jews fault ...


21 posted on 07/11/2017 8:40:50 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All of those decades of rock throwing begs the question, why can’t they produce even one minor league baseball player?


22 posted on 07/11/2017 8:43:49 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does the UN blame the Jews and the United States?
Kinda like the democrats blaming everyone when they destroy cities in the US.


23 posted on 07/11/2017 8:45:49 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The picture they have so successfully painted in the minds of most Westerners is that the entire population of Gaza is destitute, living in the most pitiable conditions known to man....

UNLESS it is during an election cycle during which the propaganda shifts to portray Gaza in a much more promising/prosperous light.

The following video(s) illustrate Gaza's vibrate and flourishing markets, luxury hotels and restaurants (Gaza City Roots - Lonely Planet calls the Roots Club, “the best” restaurant in Gaza, universities, water parks, amusement rides, beaches & 5 star beach side resorts (Al-Mashtal Hotel), Equestrian Clubs - (see Gaza Jabaliya Horse Club, Gaza Kite Festival etc. Hardly the destitute image. video: Gaza 2016 - Hamas Propaganda

24 posted on 07/11/2017 9:05:21 AM PDT by wtd
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To: Lera
The Israelis left them an industry when they pulled.
What did the people of Gaza do with it ?
They destroyed it and used the parts to build more bombs.

When the Israelis were leaving Gaza, some liberal Jews bought a thriving nursery there and turned it over to the Palestinians. Within days they were ransacking the place, tearing out pipes, etc. until nothing but a shell remained.

Looters strip Gaza Greenhouses

25 posted on 07/11/2017 9:06:21 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: bert
"The Gaza Strip is reverting to Islam of old."

YUP!

Islam is deadly to all living things.

26 posted on 07/11/2017 9:06:23 AM PDT by blam
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“we write symphonies..”


27 posted on 07/11/2017 9:07:23 AM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the humanitarian thing to do is to help them move back to Muslim countries, out of Israel (all of them).
but instead USA keeps funding the mass-murdering terrorist Abbas/PLO gangsters....and even “meeting with them”...
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!! America is far, FAR better than that! Absolutely sickening!

hey, President Trump...respectfully sir..its past time already to DRAIN THE SWAMP especially all those Snake Department and other IslamoNazi agents and enablers who’ve infiltrated into “our” government... (like also the ones that helped Obama fund and arm the ISIS branch of Muslim terrorist gangsters, you know the ones who enjoyed BBQing and crucifying Christians?)


28 posted on 07/11/2017 9:08:12 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hamas must have hired economic consultants from the DNC.


29 posted on 07/11/2017 9:15:17 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: samtheman

Most intelligent and employable Gazans fled the Strip within ten years of the 6 day war of 1967. What is left today are the dregs of Palestinian society. No one wants them, especially Muslim nations.


30 posted on 07/11/2017 9:30:05 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No sympathy for Islamic cockroaches. None!


31 posted on 07/11/2017 9:30:40 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Oatka

That’s exactly what I was referring to.
Thanks for posting the link . I was to lazy to search for it.


32 posted on 07/11/2017 9:40:29 AM PDT by Lera
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To: Bookshelf

I don’t know why no Arab country wants them. They behaved so well when they visited Kuwait in 1990-91.


33 posted on 07/11/2017 9:43:13 AM PDT by samtheman (The Germans -- having failed twice -- have finally hit on a way to destroy Europe.)
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To: Kozy
"Send them to Germany. Merkel loves muslims and hates western white males."

That is actually a GREAT idea. Tell the people in Gaza that Israel is willing to take all two-million residents to a wonderful land up north where they will receive all sorts of free stuff from the German government. Hire the boats and release said residents in Hamburg where they can meet all the nice Antifa types, who have gathered for a "peaceful" protest.

34 posted on 07/11/2017 9:43:49 AM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They seem to have left something out. Oh, I got it. The Hamas takeover followed on the heels of Israel evaluating all forces and settlements from Gaza in 2005.

I thought all that was needed to create a Palestinian paradise was to end the "occupation"? Not so?

35 posted on 07/11/2017 9:58:02 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: bitt

“we write symphonies..”

While Hamas, on behalf of and with the resources of Gaza, is devoted to murdering its neighbor.


36 posted on 07/11/2017 9:59:15 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2

US Taxpayers have likely given 10’s of millions (if not billions) of dollars over time to these criminal terrorist freaks. What are they doing with the money...other than murdering Jews? Enough already.


37 posted on 07/11/2017 10:07:12 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: hal ogen

“US Taxpayers have likely given 10’s of millions (if not billions) of dollars over time to these criminal terrorist freaks. What are they doing with the money...other than murdering Jews? Enough already.”

And just how is this any different than what we’ve done for the Blacks here in America? $hit people are $hit people the world over, and no amount of money will be able to cure that specific problem. For me, it’s sink or swim time for both groups. Make a life for yourself by your own hand or die. Simple as that. Either way, the world will end up being a better place. Our financial resource have much, much more pressing uses that “taking care” of both groups.


38 posted on 07/11/2017 10:31:15 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Humanitarian approach - help move them to their own Muslim- conquered lands, and since most of these are from Egypt and the Egyptians managed to free themselves from Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood terrorist gang regime —divert all aid from PLO- pa- Abbas and other Muslim murder gangs into a genuine humanitarian repatriation fund for Muslims occupying any of israel’s territories — aid to recipient Muslim countries included since “they don’t really want the so-called “Palestinians” “ but this is the path to peace — otherwuse they’ll just keep murdering innocent Jews and Christians and causing more and more trouble. ( and eventually get themselves killed anyway).


39 posted on 07/11/2017 10:39:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: LibertarianLiz
It is Islam, that is the problem. The religion IS the problem. Now, unfortuantely, I am not supposed to even think that, let alone type it out. But, it is the truth.

And everyone is determined to remain in denial about it until they've dragged the entire human race back to the Dark Ages.

40 posted on 07/11/2017 10:56:16 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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