GAZA CITY - Life in the Gaza Strip has become “miserable and dangerous” after six months of fiscal and political crisis, John Ging, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, told AFP in an interview.“Every day seems to get worse. The prospects are very bleak because we have seen nothing in six months but deterioration,” he said. “All the elements of a civilised existence are falling apart: there is a lack of food, no electricity, no salaries, the public services are crumbling.”
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The living conditions of the 1.4 million people living in Gaza, one of the most densely populated places on earth, have deteriorated sharply owing to the cut in Western aid, Israeli closures and Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. “Life in Gaza is miserable and dangerous. There have been more than 200 killed during the last couple of months, among them 44 children,” said Ging.
Since March, Ging says the UN has added another 100,000 people to the number benefiting from food aid, an increase of 15 percent to a total of 830,000.