Gaza 'unlivable' ten years after Hamas seized power: U.N.

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Tue Jul 11, 2017 | 8:29am EDT

Gaza 'unlivable' ten years after Hamas seized power: U.N.

By Luke Baker | JERUSALEM

A decade after the Islamist group Hamas seized Gaza, the Palestinian enclave is effectively unlivable 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 U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid and development for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, 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."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-gaza-un-idUSKBN19W17T

[FBaggins]

1. They're obviously selective in their choice of "indicators"

Just compare the rate of tunnel construction before and after Hamas was "elected". THAT indicator isn't declining.