web Photo: Wissam Nassar/IRIN GAZA CITY, 1 August 2010 (IRIN) - A four-year Israeli blockade, a 23-day military assault in 2009 and political infighting between Hamas and Fatah have created what a number of UN agencies and governments have described as a “humanitarian crisis” in the Gaza Strip. The economy, food security and health of the estimated 1.5 million Palestinians - about 80 percent of whom are refugees - have deteriorated markedly since the economic embargo was imposed in 2006, the UN...
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