One year of the war between Israel and Hamas has set the Gaza Strip back to the early 1950s, the UN agency for Palestine refugees said.
The war has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza’s population in poverty, with life indicators like health and education regressing by 70 years, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Wednesday on social media platform X.
“The longer this goes on, the longer it takes to bring back hundreds of thousands of girls and boys to a learning environment, the more extreme the challenges will be to undo these huge losses,” he added.