{"id":120150,"date":"2017-07-11T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=120150"},"modified":"2017-10-25T19:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:43:31","slug":"new-un-report-documents-legacy-of-10-years-of-isolation-and-crisis-in-gaza-unsco-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/new-un-report-documents-legacy-of-10-years-of-isolation-and-crisis-in-gaza-unsco-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10 years of Isolation and Crisis in Gaza – UNSCO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerusalem, 11 July 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN Country Team in the occupied Palestinian territory released a report today that reviews the socio-economic status of the Gaza Strip, a decade after the events of 2006-2007 that saw a violent take-over of the Strip by Hamas, the enforcement of strict closures by Israel and the administrative separation of Gaza from the West Bank. The new report, \u2018Gaza \u2013 10 years later\u2019 takes stock of some of the key indicators identified in an earlier 2012 UN report which predicted Gaza would become \u2018unliveable\u2019 by 20201, unless underlying trends were reversed.<\/p>\n

The report underscores that most of the earlier projections for 2020 have deteriorated further and faster than anticipated in 2012. Real GDP per capita in Gaza has decreased, the provision of health services has continued to decline, and the demand for additional health clinics, doctors, and hospital beds has not been met. Thanks in large part to the scale of UNRWA\u2019s services, Gaza has maintained high education standards but average daily classroom time for students remains as low as four hours. While an earlier projection that the coastal aquifer would become unusable by 2016 has been revised to the end of 2017, Gaza\u2019s only water source is predicted to be irreversibly-depleted by 2020, unless immediate remedial action is taken. Huge reconstruction needs provoked by the 2014 conflict triggered increased imports of construction material to Gaza, particularly through the temporary Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM) however access to material necessary to allow the Gazan economy, infrastructure and basic services to recover and expand remains highly restricted.<\/p>\n

With electricity supply reaching as low as 90MW in recent days (against demand in excess of 450MW), energy is the most visible recent deterioration in living conditions in Gaza but this comes on top of a host of other chronic and acute problems that have become part of \u2018normal\u2019 life.<\/p>\n

\u201cGaza has continued on its trajectory of de-development, in many cases even faster than we had originally projected\u201d said Robert Piper, the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities. \u201cOngoing humanitarian assistance especially through UNRWA\u2019s services, are helping slow this descent, but the downward direction remains clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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