Blockaded by Israel for 11 years, Gaza needs an emergency programme to link it to the outside world
As 2020 approaches, we are just weeks away from the deadline by which the UN has warned the Gaza Strip could become uninhabitable.
The UN and other aid agencies have issued many subsequent reports warning of a humanitarian disaster in this densely populated, isolated enclave.
Last year, Michael Lynk, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, noted that with 70 percent youth unemployment, a collapsed healthcare system and widely contaminated drinking water, Gaza was already unfit to live in.
The UN’s warning seven years ago was meant to inspire change, but for Palestinians inside Gaza, our daily realities have only grown grimmer.
Isolated in Gaza
As a direct result of Israel’s blockade on Gaza, the territory has been isolated from the outside world
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