From BBC News.
Am quoting the article, because it's too heartbreaking for me to comment.
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""A UN study, carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP), talks of a "marked decline" in living standards.
It says that by the end of last year more than 80% of Gazans and 60% of West Bankers were reducing their daily expenditures.
The report warns that rising levels of unemployment and poverty are posing acute challenges to "food security" - a family's ability to provide itself with enough to eat.
The study talks of "economic suffocation" and says that Israeli security restrictions in the occupied West Bank and around Gaza are fragmenting the Palestinian economy.
Sectors like fishing and farming are being ruined.
Although the report does not refer to them, the past 12 months have also seen international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
(...)
Mrs Iyad has been unable to find work herself and she says that she would sell anything in the house if it was worth selling.
This is a common response to the economic crisis.
Am quoting the article, because it's too heartbreaking for me to comment.
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""A UN study, carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP), talks of a "marked decline" in living standards.
It says that by the end of last year more than 80% of Gazans and 60% of West Bankers were reducing their daily expenditures.
The report warns that rising levels of unemployment and poverty are posing acute challenges to "food security" - a family's ability to provide itself with enough to eat.
The study talks of "economic suffocation" and says that Israeli security restrictions in the occupied West Bank and around Gaza are fragmenting the Palestinian economy.
Sectors like fishing and farming are being ruined.
Although the report does not refer to them, the past 12 months have also seen international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
(...)
Mrs Iyad has been unable to find work herself and she says that she would sell anything in the house if it was worth selling.
This is a common response to the economic crisis.
The WFP report talks of families selling off their most prized assets - like work tools and even land.
And many months ago desperate women began cashing in their jewellery at the gold market.
The UN says that extreme coping mechanisms like these can only be stretched so far.""
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Can only be stretched so far, they said. So what will happen when they are stretched to the limit? And they're getting there now. Fast.
Let's face it - stretching people to the limit has been the purpose of this economic isolation and suspension of aid campaign from the very beginning, in the hope that angry people will topple the Government they elected, and settle for the one that DC and Tel Aviv elect - just so they can eat.
Economic sanctions at their worse.
Can only be stretched so far, they said. So what will happen when they are stretched to the limit? And they're getting there now. Fast.
Let's face it - stretching people to the limit has been the purpose of this economic isolation and suspension of aid campaign from the very beginning, in the hope that angry people will topple the Government they elected, and settle for the one that DC and Tel Aviv elect - just so they can eat.
Economic sanctions at their worse.
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