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Don’t forget the people of Palestine
The humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is worse than it has ever been. In Gaza , 87% of the population are living below the poverty line.
It’s an absolute scandal that the world continues to ignore and isolate the 1.5 million people trapped inside Gaza .
The UK government must act now to help resolve the political crisis facing the Palestinians, and prevent a humanitarian emergency.
Failure to do so will have dire consequences for the people of Gaza and will undermine any long-term viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Email Foreign Secretary David Miliband now.
In the Gaza Strip, 1.5 million people are locked into a tiny piece of land no bigger than the Isle of Wight . Cut off from the outside world by closed borders and further isolated by international sanctions over the past year and a half, a shocking 87% of Palestinians in Gaza are surviving below the poverty line.
Threatened by continuing blockade by Israel and further isolation by the international community, the people of Gaza are living on the brink of a humanitarian emergency and civil war.
Sanctions and the blockade have contributed to the collapse of the Gazan economy and the Palestinian national unity government. The policy of isolation has only led to more poverty, violence and extremism.
One of Christian Aid’s partners in Gaza , the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, told us: ‘How can Gaza be a normal place, how can we live a normal life here? Firstly there has to be free movement between Gaza and the West Bank and open access to the outside world’.
The Palestinians must now work to build bridges within their own society. But they must be supported not hindered by the international community.
