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| Warning on Funds, U.N. Doubles Estimate of Destroyed Gaza Homes |
| 2014-12-19 |
| [AnNahar] The U.N. warned Thursday it was running out of funds to house families in Gazoo, as it doubled its estimate of the number of homes damaged or destroyed in this summer's war with Israel. "Unless the situation changes urgently, we will run out of funds in January, meaning we will not be able to provide rental subsidies to many affected families nor provide the support required to carry out repairs," said Robert Turner, the operations director for the UNRWA Paleostinian refugee agency. He said more than 96,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the 50-day war, more than twice the U.N.'s original estimate. Based on satellite imagery and preliminary field work immediately after the war, "we estimated about 42,000 refugee family shelters had been affected by the war," he said. "We now know that over 96,000 homes were damaged or destroyed." Turner said more than 7,000 homes were completely lost, affecting some 10,000 families. An additional 89,000 homes were damaged, about 10,000 of them severely. UNRWA has estimated $720 million (585 million euros) will be needed to provide rental subsidies to families with no alternative shelter, to rebuild destroyed homes and repair damaged ones. However, ars longa, vita brevis... only some $100 million has been pledged. Without additional funds, "tens of thousands of refugee families will find themselves with inadequate shelter and no support during the hardest months of winter," Turner said. The conflict between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-led Gazoo holy warriors, which ended on August 26, killed nearly 2,200 Paleostinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 No thanks, #7 tu. I've got better taste - and much higher standards. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-12-19 22:38 |
| #10 "Donate now and we'll double the amount of reported damage and get your free Green Helmut today. Imams are standing by." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-12-19 22:38 |
| #9 sometimes ya gotta suffer to learn, Paleos |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-12-19 22:34 |
| #8 Not worried about venereal diseases, tu3031? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-19 14:30 |
| #7 Fuck Gaza and fuck the UN. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-12-19 13:11 |
| #6 And HamAss is using the rebuilding material from Israel to rebuild terrorists tunnels. Why do I get the feeling that this 'warning' was accompanied by a wink-wink nod-nod? They shouldn't have received a dime for starting a war. Losing has concenquences. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-12-19 11:55 |
| #5 I know about donations but I am sivck my taxes are going to feed the Paleos. Let the deep pockets of Saudis and Quataris fund them not ours. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-19 10:12 |
| #4 Maybe, just maybe, it's not humanitarian reasons that motivate donations to "Palestinians", JFM. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-19 07:07 |
| #3 Let me summarize if I understand: We have been feeding spending money on feeding well fed people for sixty six years all while people in Africa were starving. For sixty six fricking yeare these well fed people have diverted our money to warfare and terrorism then came asking for more "because they couldn't feed themselves" and we gave it to them all while in Africa there were people starving. For sixty fricking years each time these well fed people perpetrated an atrocity that brought them a retaliation we pay the rebuilding of what their enemy had destroyed all while people in Africa were starving. Enough is enough. Not a single cent for the Paledso!!! Let's force the Palestians to refund every single penny since 1948!!! et's the Saudis pay the bill since they are so fond of them!!! |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-19 05:03 |
| #2 Not for lack of trying to kill Israeli children and they even tried to a suicide bombing agaisnt a maternity. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-19 04:40 |
| #1 Every Islamic uprising all the way to Pakistan is slaughtering innocent civilians like poultry farmers with a contract for McNuggets. The Palestinians mostly kill soldiers, though. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2014-12-19 01:01 |