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NPR · 2012-03-17
An NPR Weekend Edition report by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro on a Gaza construction boom fed by cement and paving stones smuggled through Rafah tunnels, despite Israel's ban on building materials. Omar Shaban explains the demand — more than 80,000 housing units needed, 250,000 births in five years, around 40,000 marriages a year — but warns this is not development: Gaza has 'an economy with one leg', with construction booming while other sectors are paralysed and the economy depends on Israeli, Ramallah and Egyptian policy.
An NPR Weekend Edition report by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro on a Gaza construction boom fed by cement and paving stones smuggled through Rafah tunnels, despite Israel's ban on building materials. Omar Shaban explains the demand — more than 80,000 housing units needed, 250,000 births in five years, arou…