{"id":7687,"date":"2014-12-28T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T10:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2018-04-03T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:18:30","slug":"corruption-hampers-effort-to-rebuild-gaza-after-summer-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2014\/12\/7687\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/12\/18\/1418916945245\/Gaza-in-December-009.jpg\" alt=\"Gaza in December\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/static\/4e07daba1460b15a74c47a12f30b71a5a74cec77\/common\/images\/logos\/the-guardian\/news.gif\" alt=\"The Guardian home\" width=\"115\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt is a disgrace what is happening,\u201d said economist Omar Shaban. \u201cThe new reconstruction mechanism has reproduced the Israeli siege of Gaza, only this time it is the UN that is regulating it. The UN is trading stability for cement \u2013 and not very much of it. And most of the cement that is coming in is being sold on the black market. Israel knows it. Serry knows it. The mechanism was a licence for corruption. It is a licence to prolong the siege. It is a licence for big salaries for the UN officials running it. What is absurd is that none of it is preventing Hamas rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/25\/corruption-hampers-effort-to-rebuild-gaza\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/25\/corruption-hampers-effort-to-rebuild-gaza<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict \u00a0\u201cIt is a disgrace what is happening,\u201d said economist Omar Shaban. \u201cThe new reconstruction mechanism has reproduced the Israeli siege of Gaza, only this time it is the UN that is regulating it. The UN is trading stability for cement \u2013 and not very much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict - Pal-Think For Strategic Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2014\/12\/7687\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict - Pal-Think For Strategic Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict \u00a0\u201cIt is a disgrace what is happening,\u201d said economist Omar Shaban. \u201cThe new reconstruction mechanism has reproduced the Israeli siege of Gaza, only this time it is the UN that is regulating it. 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