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Gaza has experienced ’16 years of de-development’: UN

War on Hamas is 'war of the free world': Israeli FM
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The Gaza Strip has lived through 16 years of de-development, the United Nations said Wednesday, adding that the economic consequences of the Israel-Hamas war were “impossible to determine”.

“Gaza has experienced 16 years of de-development and suppressed human potential and the right to development,” the UN’s UNCTAD trade and development agency said in an annual report on the Palestinian economy.

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