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Human Rights

UN: A Million Palestinians will Need Food aid in Israel-blockaded Gaza Next Year

Juan Cole 12/20/2013

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PressTv reports, “The UN says nearly a million Palestinians are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year”

Their blurb:

“About 800-thousand Palestinian refugees are currently receiving food aid from the U-N Relief and Works Agency– UNRWA– but the organization expects a 10 to 20 percent rise in demand in 2014. The U-N’s Gaza director of operations says the main reason for the increase is Egypt’s closure of Gaza tunnels– a measure which has deprived thousands of Palestinians of basic goods, halted construction projects, and led to job losses. The tunnels were the only lifeline for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The coastal enclave has been under the Israeli regime’s blockade since 2007.”

[The Israel Occupation authorities block Palestinians from exporting most of what they make or grow from the Gaza Strip as a policy of collective punishment of the civilian population, half of which consists of children.]

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h/t Cindy Hall

AFP reported a few weeks ago:

UN warns of deteriorating Gaza humanitarian situation (via AFP)

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian enclave, UN officials said Thursday. “After 12 months the initial hopes for a significant improvement…

 

Filed Under: Human Rights, Israel/ Palestine

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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