| Workers' calls to speed up the pace of the reconstruction of Gaza |
Union workers in the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday that the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip caused the high poverty rate among the workers, and led to a rise in the poverty rate, "the workers" to 70%, as the unemployment rate increased to 60%.
A statement of the Union, quoted by Anatolia: "One year after the war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip during the last year, still about 200 thousand workers unemployed, caring for about 900 thousand people, reached the poverty in their ranks ratio to 70%, and unemployment to 60%. "
Union and called on donor countries to speed up the pace of the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and rescue workers from the consequences of years of siege and the repercussions of the recent Israeli war.
Union demanded the international community to "assume its responsibilities towards the besieged Gaza Strip, and work to create a seaport, and lift the siege."
On the seventh of July 2014, Israel launched a war on the Gaza Strip, ended on August 26 / August 2014.
Over the course of "51 days" displays the Gaza Strip, which is defined as more areas, the density of population in the world (1.8 million Palestinian) Israeli military air and ground attack that killed 2147 Palestinians, including 578 children, and 489 women, 102 elderly, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health , while wounding 11 thousand people.
And it estimated the Palestinian Ministry of Economy direct and indirect total economic losses, in buildings and infrastructure, and the loss of the national economy in the Gaza Strip in all economic sectors almost $ 5 billion.