An Unlivable Hell?

That's essentially what the latest UN report on Gaza says, “The social, health and security-related ramifications of the high population density and overcrowding are among the factors that may render Gaza unliveable by 2020”.

Here are some excerpts:

• The Israeli blockade “ravaged the already debilitated infrastructure of Gaza, shattered its productive base, left no time for meaningful reconstruction or economic recovery and impoverished the Palestinian population in Gaza". 
• Gaza’s electricity supply was not even enough to cover 40 percent of demand, 95 percent of water from coastal aquifers — Gazans main source of freshwater — was considered unsafe to drink. 
• Unemployment in Gaza last year was 44 percent — the highest level on record — hitting young women especially hard, leaving more than eight out of 10 women out of work.
• 72 percent of all households in Gaza are meanwhile struggling with food insecurity, and the number of Palestinian refugees who rely entirely on food distribution from UN agency has ballooned from 72,000 in 2000 to 868,000 by last May.