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Economist Calls for Caravans to Be Made in Gaza Rather Than Imported

Donia Al-Watan · 2014-08-16

A Donia Al-Watan item on Omar Shaban's call, made on Facebook after the 2014 war, for the prefabricated caravans needed to house displaced families and free the schools to be built in Gaza by its thousands of carpenters, smiths, plumbers and electricians rather than imported. He proposes that donor states such as Turkey send teams to supervise the work and train local workers and bring raw materials in through the crossings, employing hundreds of workshops, transferring technology and keeping more of the aid in the local market, as was done after the tsunami and in Pakistan and Haiti.

A Donia Al-Watan item on Omar Shaban's call, made on Facebook after the 2014 war, for the prefabricated caravans needed to house displaced families and free the schools to be built in Gaza by its thousands of carpenters, smiths, plumbers and electricians rather than imported. He proposes that donor…

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