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Palestine: Several surveys highlight the extremely poor the situation of the blockaded territory Israel: infant mortality rates and record unemployment, devastated health sector.
"Save Gaza, save children's lives, save our future" is the cry of alarm that launches Medoukh Ziad, a teacher at Al-Aqsa Gaza, which has sent us an overwhelming situation. Gaza is dying. This little area of just 360 square kilometers is cut off from the rest of the world because of the blockade imposed by Israel since June 2007. The 1.5 million people who live there are virtually prisoners : They can not get out.
The agricultural sector destroys
"The closure of Gaza is a physical punishment as that population's mental, "warned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency United Nations for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement released Tuesday. The UN agency said its food distributions (wheat, meat, milk powder and oil) to about 750,000 Palestinians in Gaza will stop on Thursday, unless it obtains access to the occupied territory.
Note that the number of trucks delivering fuel, cargo and other goods necessary for the socio-economic activity and health has increased from about 300 per day on the eve of the blockade to 45 at the beginning of the blockade, to be virtually zero today. Thus, food scarcity has automatically pushed up prices in a region where the infant mortality rate (30 deaths per thousand, according to WHO) is one of the highest in the world.
Economically, the 3900 SMEs / SMIs operating in 2005, leaving only 195, which operate at idle. The 960 garment factories subcontracted some 5 million pieces destined for the Israeli market are now at a standstill, and their 25 000 employees, now unemployed, went to swell the ranks of the 80% of unemployed in the Territory.
Hit hard, agriculture (70,000 hectares), which employed over 40 000 employees (12% of the workforce), lives. The export ban on agricultural products, causing losses of 150,000 dollars per day, added to lack of seeds, fertilizers and agricultural equipment, is being reduced to nothing this vital sector of the economy.
More serious still is the impact on infrastructure, health, education and more generally the daily lives of residents of the Gaza Strip. In terms of construction, all projects within the framework of the UN - as road networks and streets of towns and villages, roads, construction of universities and hospitals worth 350 million dollars, are stopped. The shortage of drugs may affect more than 160 types of products in the coming days, reports a study of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
lack of parts replacement, 90 medical devices have failed. In addition, according to WHO, the Israeli army has banned the release of 1 150 patients, including 210 in a worrying state, go to heal in Egypt or Jordan or elsewhere. Without treatment abroad, 259 patients have died since June 2007. What is added, according to a WHO report, that "psychological trauma and stress with high levels, especially among children and young adults."
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In addition, the shortage of fuel, resulting in frequent power shutdowns still in service, is not without consequences the functioning of vital sectors in terms of lifestyle and health: it is true of water supply services, wastewater sewage treatment, waste treatment, and more generally of garbage collection ; lack of fuel and spare parts, over 50% of vehicle fleet of Gaza City are off, and garbage piled up visibly in the streets of Gaza and other locations.
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