Bankruptcy cases build up in Gazan courts as citizens run out of cash for essentials
Every Friday for the past month, thousands of Palestinians have surged to Gaza’s border fence with Israel in a show of anger and defiance, some throwing stones and petrol bombs, others simply to be there.
Demonstrators say they want to challenge the loss of their ancestral homes to Israel 70 years ago. But a stream of men who risk their lives – more than 30 have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers – also despair at their mounting economic woes.
“Young people have nothing to lose,” said 31-year-old Mohammed Sukkar, a few hundred metres from the boundary fence on the first day of protests last month as the crowd retreated after pops of gunfire. Sukkar is unemployed and says he is hard pressed to feed his six children.
Across the 360 sq km territory, Gazans are struggling to finance their daily lives. Young people – unable to pay for weddings or homes of their own – are delaying marriage, figures show, while health officials say suicide, once virtually unheard of in Gaza, is on the rise.
Give me a break . Islam is a death cult, and a requirement of all followers is to do jihad, which entails strapping a BOMB vest to themselves and blowing themselves up . We have all witnessed this, some first hand, and this piece of propaganda is trying to convince us that these moslems, who receive billions of $ from countries all over the world, are going bankrupt and have no money to feed their children so are committing SUICIDE, which was UNHEARD of till recently ? Does the writer think EVERYONE is as stupid and gullible as they are ?