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Monday, February 5, 2018
UN chief warns Gaza will be inhabitable by 2020 if infrastructure not upgraded
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Gaza Strip will be inhabitable by 2020 unless major upgrades are made in the Palestinian enclave.
“A UN study showed this worrying warning. If the current situation persists, basic services and infrastructure in that territory will collapse,’ he says at the opening of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
“Two million Palestinians are facing a ruined infrastructure, electricity crisis, lack of basic services, chronic unemployment and a stagnated economy every day,” Guterres says. “All that is happening amid a developing environmental disaster.”
He also expresses concern that the US cut in funding to the UN agency tasked with providing aid to Palestinians would exacerbate the situation.
The Times of Israel Community.