The UN’s development organization has calculated what it will take to get Gaza’s residents back on their feet once the war is over. Mountains of waste play a central role.
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Garbage may seem like a strangely small and everyday thing to care about in a Gaza that is in the midst of a monumental humanitarian crisis. Where the lack of food, water and medical care is desperate. 42,700 people have been killed, according to the latest figures from the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
75 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and 1.9 million people – 90 percent of the population – have been displaced, according to the latest UN count.
Source: politiken.dk