{"id":353,"date":"2011-06-14T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:08:39","slug":"new-unrwa-reports-show-economic-woes-in-gaza-and-record-number-of-children-displaced-by-home-demolitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/new-unrwa-reports-show-economic-woes-in-gaza-and-record-number-of-children-displaced-by-home-demolitions\/","title":{"rendered":"New UNRWA reports show economic woes in Gaza and record number of children displaced by home demolitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An UNRWA report done on the 5th anniversary of the Gaza blockade shows that unemployment in the 2nd half of 2010 reached an unprecedented 45%, one of the highest rates in the world.\u00a0 Real wages continued to decline, especially in the private sector,\u00a0falling 35% since the first half of 2006.<\/p>\n<p><em>These are disturbing trends, and the refugees, which make up two-thirds of Gaza\u2019s 1.5 million population, were the worst hit in the period covered in this report. It is hard to understand the logic of a man-made policy which deliberately impoverishes so many and condemns hundreds of thousands of potentially productive people to a life of destitution.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"UNRWA Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/etemplate.php?id=1007\" target=\"_blank\">Read more\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"UNRWA Gaza report June 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/userfiles\/201106083557.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read full report<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a title=\"Peace not Walls - Gaza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Our-Faith-In-Action\/Justice\/Peace-Not-Walls\/Major-Issues\/Gaza.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">See Peace not Walls Gaza page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/etemplate.php?id=1005\" target=\"_blank\">Another UNRWA report <\/a>shows that a record number of children were displaced in May by Israeli eviction or demolition of Palestinian homes and families.\u00a0\u00a0UNRWA has also created a new website called <a title=\"UNRWA Demolition Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/etemplate.php?id=1001\" target=\"_blank\">Demolition Watch <\/a>that monitors these demolitions and evictions, and calls upon Israel to stop this practice as they claim it violates international law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An UNRWA report done on the 5th anniversary of the Gaza blockade shows that unemployment in the 2nd half of 2010 reached an unprecedented 45%, one of the highest rates in the world.\u00a0 Real wages continued to decline, especially in the private sector,\u00a0falling 35% since the first half of 2006. 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