Squeeze and suffocate

摘要

YOU may think that after a dozen years of blockade by Israel, three devastating wars and the rule of a harsh Islamist government, life in Gaza could hardly get worse. But the prospect of another war and a dire shortage of cash to pay for the UN's Relief and Works Agency, better known as unrwa, mean that it can. Last year President Donald Trump's administration said it would withhold $30501 of the $365m that has annually serviced the agency, which has supported most of Gaza's 2m people for the past seven decades. Now the cash is running out.