These photographs were published on Wednesday by the Shehab News Agency, and show a homeless palestinian family forced to live in a bus stop in the besiged Gaza strip.
Ths bus stop at Saraya junction in Gaza city is what the family has from the weather - the world outside offers them none.
According to a recent study, 80% of the 2 million inhabitants of the coastal enclave beseiged by the occupier Egypt and Israel , live in poverty and 65% in extreme poverty, with little access to the most basic serices.
As over 80% population depend on aid , the cuts to aid ( which have already been reduced before because of lack of funds ) by the Unied States will only worsen the situation. The U.S announced on Jan 16 to cut 67 million Us dollars from 125 million dollars that it had planned to provide to the UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza. The blockade has pushed Gaza's population into frther poverty as unemplyment rates hit 45%. The illegal blockade has been in place for over a decade , devastating Gaza's economy , causing widespread destruction and left most people cut off from the outside world.
The humanitarian needs are enormouse. People struggle to access clean water, food, medical education and to rebild their homes. The blockade prevents most of them from leaving Gaza or trading with the outside world and restricts vital reconstruction material from entering.
Over 60% of Palestinian residents in Gaza are living in food insecurity as many rely on foreign food aid, according to international organizations and United Nations agencies.The Crisis has delibertely been made in the beseiged Gaza by its beseigers and their enablers in the so called 'international community'.
The UN Security Council held a cosultative session on Wednesday to discuss the deteriorting situation in the Gaza Strip following warnings of a possible collapse of basic services in the Palestinian war-torn enclave, amid calls for urgent intervention to end the suffering of the Palestinians there.
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Source
https://english.palinfo.com/articles/2018/01/29/Gaza-deserves-to-live
