APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza– 29 June 2021. Palestinian engineer Ahmed Al-Qiq, inspects damage at his center for the Training and Development , which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes during the May 2021 conflict between Hamas and Israel.
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Gaza’s housing ministry said on Thursday that 16,800 housing units had been damaged. Of those, 1,800 had become unfit for living and 1,000 were destroyed completely.
Israel bombed factories, commercial buildings, stores, farms, restaurants and businesses. More than 500 enterprises were destroyed or damaged, including 50 factories.
Gaza already had one of the world’s highest unemployment rates – more than 50 percent even before Israel’s latest offensive.
This is a result of Israel’s repeated military attacks on Gaza along with an ongoing 14-year blockade backed by the US and its allies.
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