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UN gives $2.5 million to Gaza for fuel and water crisis
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...boodling on the grand scale... on Thursday gave Gazoo $2.5 million in humanitarian aid  to help with their water and fuel crisis.The funds come as Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is threatening to gradually cut funding to Gazoo if Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, fails to allow Fatah to return to the Strip. Some 2 million Paleostinians living in Gazoo have been hostage for the last four months to the power play between Fatah and Hamas, as Abbas seek to regain control of the Strip 10 years after Hamas ousted his party in a bloody coup. In July the UN issued an urgent appeal for $25 million, but to date only 30% of that sum has bene funded.
One man's rights are another man's existential threat. of Gazoo’s civilian population - over half of them children ‐ appear to have disappeared from view" he added. Some of the UN funds will pay for fuel for the generators that are helping run 190 health, water and sanitation installations. It will also provide for medical equipment and supplies, solar panels, cash assistance and agriculture supplies. The Paleostinians in Gazoo have suffered in particular from an electricity crisis in which they are surviving on only about four hours of power a day. Israel has reduced its supply of electricity to Gazoo at the request of the Paleostinian Authority, who said it only planned to pay a small portion of the bill. The PA also imposed an onerous tax on the diesel fuel needed to run Gazoo only power plant, as a result it has only been operational for intermittent periods. "The Gazoo strip is into its fourth month of a serious energy crisis. Power supply to households and services has barely covered 25% of needs over the last 6 weeks. Hospitals and other facilities are operating almost 24/7 on generators that are not designed for continuous use in this way. The last bulk shipment of essential drugs from the West Bank was in March 2017; an estimated 40% of essential drugs are at zero stock. There is a large backlog of patients requiring urgent medical referral to hospitals outside the Strip," the UN said in a statement it issued on the funding. The $2.5 million came Euoprean countries who had donated to the Humanitarian Fund run by the Office for Humanitarian Affairs in the Paleostinian territories. Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italia, Malta, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... were among the donor countries. On Tuesday Miroslav Jenca, the UN’s Assistant Secretary General spoke of the Gazoo Crisis before the UN Security Council in New York. "I call on Paleostinian leaders to address the destructive consequences of the divisions. I encourage them to reach agreement that would allow the legitimate Paleostinian authorities to take up their responsibilities in Gazoo, as a step towards the formation of a united, democratically elected Paleostinian government on the basis of the PLO principles," Jenca asid. Hamas must also ensure that calm is maintained by stopping myrmidon buildup against Israel and by doing its utmost to sustain security at the border with Egypt. Israel should step-up measures to lift the closures and facilitate development in Gazoo as overall calm persists in the Strip, in line with Security Council resolution 1860," Jencal said. She then urged donor countries to contribute to the Gazoo appeal. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-27 |
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