Quotes by Sarah Colborne

With around 80 per cent of Gazans now surviving on less than £1 a day, families are living on food parcels from the UN. They cannot even fish to supplement their diets because Israeli gunboats fire on any vessels more than a mile offshore. Eighty five per cent of manufacturing businesses are now closed, according to the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs.
This blockade has forced the UN to suspend over £45 million worth of construction projects for homes, schools and sewage treatment in Gaza because cement and other building supplies have run out and Israel blocks further supplies. The 121,000 people previously employed on these UN projects have been forced to join the 70 per cent of Gazans already unemployed.
Borders are closed even to imports of paper for textbooks for UN schools in Gaza, and residents are effectively imprisoned.

In 2006, 661 Palestinians died as a result of Israeli military action, with 23 Israelis killed in the same period. Palestinian GDP is now 20 times less than Israeli GDP, Palestinians have suffered a 40 per cent fall in per capita GDP since 2000 — double that of the two worst years of the 1930s US Great Depression.
Whilst the US claims to talk peace, recent Associated Press reports on military aid made its real intentions explicit. The US is offering Israel a $30 billion military aid package over 10 years, a 25 per cent increase on last year.