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-- restricted amounts of industrial fuel (for Gaza's sole power plant), benzene, diesel, and cooking gas;
-- except for a limited number of humanitarian cases, a ban on Palestinian traffic through Erez, the only passenger crossing to the West Bank;
-- other than intermittent openings, the closure of Rafah, the Egyptian-controlled crossing; and
-- restricted (to close to shore) fishing and accessibility to farmland.
After over two years of siege:
-- Gaza's economy was wrecked;
-- the UN report way underestimates the number of job losses at 120,000 and unemployment at 40%;
-- on May 1, the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce reported that unemployment reached 65%, poverty hit 80%, and the longer the siege continues, the higher these figures will go; in addition, 96% of Gaza's industrial capacity is shuttered, and well over 80% of the population is aid-dependent; yet most get below minimal amounts of everything;
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