GAZA, (PIC)-- The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has announced it was unable to build schools in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege that had entered its fourth consecutive year.
Director of UNRWA operations in the Strip John Ging said that his Agency could not build schools over the last three years because the Israeli siege blocked entry of construction material.
Hence, he said, thousands of Palestinian children could not join schools, adding that around 50,000 newborns are added to Gaza inhabitants each year.
Describing the consequences of the Israeli siege as "disastrous", Ging said that the siege was destroying the human and humanitarian development in the Strip.
The recent easing of some Israeli restrictions on the entry of goods into Gaza is welcome but infinitesimal when compared to the needs of the 1.5 million Palestinians living there, the top UN official in the Strip said in an earlier statement.
“[It is] a drop in the bucket,” said Ging at a news conference in New York, repeating the categorization used by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his visit to the Strip last month.
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