As the UN raised the Palestinian flag at its New York headquarters in September, in a symbolic move towards statehood for Palestine, the UN Conference on Trade and Development released a report warning that Gaza will be ‘unliveable’ by 2020.
The people of Gaza have endured three full-scale military incursions in the past six years. The most recent, Operation Protective Edge in July 2014, killed over 2,100 Gazans, injured 10,000, left 18,000 homes destroyed, damaged 17 hospitals and displaced a third of the population. Even before this attack, socio-economic conditions in Gaza, one of the world’s most densely populated areas, were already at their lowest since 1967.
