Israeli blockade makes Gaza recovery 'impossible': aid agency

Members of a Palestinian family sit inside the remains of their house, that witnesses said was heavily damaged by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 2, 2015.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Israel's blockade of building materials for Gaza has created one of the highest levels of unemployment in the world and made it impossible for the small coastal enclave to recover from the war a year ago, aid agencies said on Wednesday.

Less than one percent of the materials needed for reconstruction have been allowed into the enclave, the international charity Christian Aid said.

Israel has blockaded Gaza, placing restrictions on people and goods leaving the enclave and goods entering it, since the Islamist group Hamas won power in Gaza in elections in 2006.

The blockade has isolated Gaza from the rest of the world, "helped to create some of the highest unemployment and aid dependency levels in the world, and must be brought to an end," Christian Aid spokesman William Bell said in a statement.

Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge" on July 8, 2014 in response to rocket fire into Israel by militants in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli air strikes and shelling hammered the densely populated enclave for 50 days, causing widespread destruction of homes, schools and other buildings, and killing more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians.

Thousands of Gazans were made homeless, 100,000 homes were damaged and more than 12,000 destroyed, none of which have been rebuilt.

The aid agency Oxfam said Gaza's economy was increasingly reliant on international aid, on which 80 percent of its 1.8 million residents depend.

Unemployment is among the highest in the world, with almost 68 percent of those under 24 jobless, it said.

The lack of opportunities is forcing a growing number of young people to risk their lives or arrest by trying to climb the border fence into Israel to look for work, Oxfam said.

The slow pace of reconstruction - estimated to take more than 70 years - means teenagers in Gaza will be old by the time it is completed, the agency said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/08/us-gaza-recovery-aid-idUSKCN0PI1XJ20150708


Don't know if anyone saw the BBC2 documentary 'Children of the Gaza War' last night, was enough to make you weep.

Now, if people on the ground, Christian Aid, and lets hope no-one accuses them of lying, say that ONLY 1% OF MATERIALS NEEDED HAVE GOT IN and it will take 70 years for them to rebuild at that rate, Israel must be lying through it's back teeth.

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Didge, the mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda sites again

Actually I thought Christian aid is one of the mouth pieces and funders for "Breaking the Silence" Sassy

Oh bless, now he's calling CHRISTAIN AID liars.   Yep, Breaking the Silence, real IDF sorry for what they had done and wracked with guilt.  Thankfully they had the guts to speak up, even though Israel desperately try to pretend they are lying and undermines them in desperation, the whole world recognises they are not.

sassy wrote:Oh bless, now he's calling CHRISTAIN AID liars.   Yep, Breaking the Silence, real IDF sorry for what they had done and wracked with guilt.  Thankfully they had the guts to speak up, even though Israel desperately try to pretend they are lying and undermines them in desperation, the whole world recognises they are not.

I am showing that this organisation as seen by the many links has many double standards. They also have an agenda against Israel.
That leaves their testimoney open to question and validity.
As seen they fund "breaking the Silence"
That is all people need to know sassy about the intentions of Christian Aid in regards to Israel.

Showing the truth of what is happening is not having double standards.  It's having principles, knowing right from wrong, and being prepared to stand up for them.

sassy wrote:Showing the truth of what is happening is not having double standards.  It's having principles, knowing right from wrong, and being prepared to stand up for them.

You claim it is true, but is it.
As seen I have shown that Christian Aid has an agenda against Israel.
It thus questions the validity of their claim.

Can you two not agree that there's a shitload of rubbish being done on both sides of this war?

eddie wrote:Can you two not agree that there's a shitload of rubbish being done on both sides of this war?

I agree Eddie plenty of wrongs have been done by both sides.
If you read the debates I do point these out.
I have stated the Settlements are wrong.
Israel needs a Liberal Goverment.
It has committed some war crimes, one clearly from the capture of an Israeli soldier which led to insdicriminate fire. This is the point I do point out these wrongs.
At the end of the day my position has always been for the two states to co-exist in peace, which requires both sides to accept the others right to self determination and statehood. I just am appalled at the poor bias and double standards apllied against Israel

I think it'll be a cold day in hell if these two ever coexist!!

In a word, No. Why do you think that so many people around the world are against what Israel is doing? Why do you think that so many countries around the world are backing Palestine. Nobody is saying that Palestine is perfect or does no wrong. What Israel is doing is not only inhuman, it's illegal and they are doing it every single day. Settlers run over Palestinian children, IDF kidnap children, take them away, inprison them and torture them, they shoot farmers and fishermen, scuttle fishingboats, etc etc and it is an everyday occurance. The life in Gaza is hell on earth and Israel are making sure it stays that way. In the West Bank Palestinians are thrown off legally owned land and their houses destroyed, their olive trees are burnt down, their children are attacked by settlers (who are there illegally) when they are going to school, their homes, schools and hospitals are hosed with Skunk which quite literally smells like shit, they are stopped from travelling within their own country, in Jerusalem, which does NOT belong to Israel, contrary to popular opinion, Palestinian shops are shut down, the list is endless, continuous and never stops.

The world now knows what is happening and they watched Israel cheering the blowing up of children.

eddie wrote:I think it'll be a cold day in hell if these two ever coexist!!

Before Zionism they used to co-exist very well.

eddie wrote:I think it'll be a cold day in hell if these two ever coexist!!

You see the difference between the two replies?
See Sassy willnot see or admit to any wrongs by the likes of Hamas or fatah.
Which both could havepeace tomorrow if they so wished, they do not want it and continue the conflict just as Sassy seeks to do the same

I have to admit I know very little or perhaps I think I know very little, as I've read the very basic idiots guide.

I think it's easy to get in too deep with one side and when I read the idiots guide (actually cuts out all the crap and stays unbiased) I had to say I came away with the distinct feeling that Israel came across as the bullies in the playground

But, as I say, in a war there aren't any "rights" and no one ever really,wins.

Cuchulain wrote:

eddie wrote:I think it'll be a cold day in hell if these two ever coexist!!

You see the difference between the two replies?
See Sassy willnot see or admit to any wrongs by the likes of Hamas or fatah.
Which both could havepeace tomorrow if they so wished, they do not want it and continue the conflict just as Sassy seeks to do the same

Well I guess it's her passion? I have mine, you have yours....vive la difference and all that

Yea right, the only thing Israel wants is PALESTINE, and they have said so, Netanyahu has said there will NEVER be a two state solution on his watch and has increased the building of illegal settlements on Palestinians owned land and thrown off the people who own it.

You might listen to their lies and swallow them, most of the world now understands that they are lies, the proof is now out there.

eddie wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:


You see the difference between the two replies?
See Sassy willnot see or admit to any wrongs by the likes of Hamas or fatah.
Which both could havepeace tomorrow if they so wished, they do not want it and continue the conflict just as Sassy seeks to do the same

Well I guess it's her passion? I have mine, you have yours....vive la difference and all that

Indeed Eddie, but I again amdit wrongs done by Israel, she ignores wrongs done by the likes of Hamas and Fatah. That is being blind and very biased.

eddie wrote:I have to admit I know very little or perhaps I think I know very little, as I've read the very basic idiots guide.

I think it's easy to get in too deep with one side and when I read the idiots guide (actually cuts out all the crap and stays unbiased) I had to say I came away with the distinct feeling that Israel came across as the bullies in the playground

But, as I say, in a war there aren't any "rights" and no one ever really,wins.

Well in case it got missed here's my starter for ten lol

I'll have to find that link and let you both see what you think

So tell me Didge, do you admit the Israelis have stolen Palestinian land?
Do you admit they shoot Gazan farmers farming in their fields?
Do you admit they shot Gazan fishermen in their boats who are within the limits they are allowed to be in?

eddie wrote:

eddie wrote:I have to admit I know very little or perhaps I think I know very little, as I've read the very basic idiots guide.

I think it's easy to get in too deep with one side and when I read the idiots guide (actually cuts out all the crap and stays unbiased) I had to say I came away with the distinct feeling that Israel came across as the bullies in the playground

But, as I say, in a war there aren't any "rights" and no one ever really,wins.

Well in case it got missed here's  my starter for ten lol

I'll have to find that link and let you both see what you think

Last night there was a programme on BBC2 'Children of the Gaza War', it included the one Israeli child who was killed.

It spoke to some of the children on both sides.   It made the point very well and was very affecting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/21/9-questions-about-israel-gaza-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/


I also started a thread in social issues
Just out of interest

sassy wrote:So tell me Didge, do you admit the Israelis have stolen Palestinian land?
Do you admit they shoot Gazan farmers farming in their fields?
Do you admit they shot Gazan fishermen in their boats who are within the limits they are allowed to be in?

Have they taken disputed land in the West Bank?

Yes

Yes I believe some famers have been killed and fisheren.

So do you admit Hamas has no care for the civillians of Palestine by building them no bomb shelters?
Do you admit they call upon civillians to become martys by staying in their homes after being warned by Israel of an attack?
Do you admit they knowingly use civillians to protect their weapons?
Do you adit they commit war crimes by firing rockets into Israel?
Do you admit the PLO and Fatah have spurned the chance for statehood twice when it was offered?
Do you admit Hamas rules Gaza through religious ideology that denies basic human rights to the people of Gaza?
Do you admit they murder any opposition within Gaza?
Do you admit hamas are a terrorists?