The blockade is preventing reconstruction and recovery of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and water networks destroyed during Israel’s military offensives in 2008-2009 and in November 2012, depleting the resources of a collapsing economy. The population of 1.6 million people, more than half of which are children, suffers from high levels of poverty and dependence on aid.
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