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MOA Report:
PNA Gaza
Commenting on the decision
of Israeli, Minister of Agriculture, severing agricultural relations with
the Gaza Strip,
Prof. / Mohammed Ramadan
Aga Palestinian Minister of Agriculture
Warns of a humanitarian
and environmental catastrophe unprecedented in the Gaza Strip.
The Decision of Israeli
Agriculture Minister, threatens the lives of people, it is a criminal
deliberate, and aimed at destroying the infrastructure of the Palestinian
agricultural sector, which has worked under Israeli siege valve either to
provide food for about a million and a half people in the Gaza Strip.
This resolution seeks to return the Gaza Strip to the pre-historic eras,
foreshadowing a state of hunger and death unprecedented in the world.
The manifestations of
famine has become very clear now, and the international organizations
working in the framework of the United Nations, civil society
organizations and all human rights organizations to stand in front of
their responsibilities, and also are invited to come to Gaza to read the
reality, and see the truth.
The Palestinian agricultural sector monopolized by Israel, 1967 to 2008,
are not allowed to import or export any of agricultural product, except
through the Israeli crossings
They worked as centers to control the political, security and economy,
to kill any chance of Palestinian independence or sovereignty on its
territory, and to prevent any contact of Palestinians with the Arab world,
and benefit from, in any direction walks of life political, economic or
social. We ask for this, that Israel was occupying state, and therefore it
must abide by and bear the responsibility and consequences of what is
going on, or we are free and therefore have the right to contact Arabic
countries and others, as a free independent people, free from arbitrary
restrictions and ethnic cleansing carried out by the occupying power.
The expected impacts of the destructive decisions of the Israeli minister
summarized in the following:
First: the expected impact
on the production sector:
Palestinian production sector depends mainly on the Israeli side in the
supply of all production requirements
And deprive the sector from entering the following materials:
Annual plant production requirements:
700 tons of sterilization gas
1000 tones of plastic.
46000 liters of chemical fertilizers (solid and liquid).
Thousands of tons of beans, seeds and packaging materials (especially
export and marketing).
Annual Supplies for irrigation schemes:
2 million linear meters of irrigation pipes
1000 water filters (screen disk and Sand filters)
500 Fertilization Reservoirs
500 Fertilization Pumps
Spare parts for 4000 water wells.
Spare parts and new water pumps for 4000 submersible pumps
Chemicals and spare parts
for the operation of wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations.
Animal production
requirements:
50000 tons of concentrated feed for poultry and livestock
150000 tons of feed production (feed inputs)
Hundreds of cubic meters of dry fodder plants and hay.
18 million egg incubation
Fish Sector and
fishing Supplies:
Very large quantities of fishing nets and hooks.
Materials for the manufacturing of boats.
Engines and spare parts for a number of more than 1000 boat manually, and
mechanical.
Food: stop importing meat:
6000 Tons of frozen meat (Beef and Chicken).
30000 Head of sheep.
15000 Head of cows.
30000 Head of Calves.
Stop importing wheat and bread
Stop importing dairy products
Stop importing goods and dried foods, canned, frozen and other foods.
Second: the expected impact on export sector:
Stop exporting products of vegetables inside and outside:
235400 tons valued at approximately 93 $ million.
Stop exporting flowers and berries ground (Strawberry) to the European
market:
450 million flower 6.5 million
2000 tons of strawberries.
All this while the sector
suffers from food gap as following:
80% shortfall in fish
65% deficit in milk and dairy products
6% deficit in the white meat (meat bird)
75% shortfall in field crops (wheat, corn and barley)
8% deficit in vegetables.
Threatening food security:
That the Gaza Strip threatened deficit of at least 75% of all food
products.
And the high poverty rate to more than 90%
The unemployment rates increase to more than 85% in general and more than
75% in the
agricultural sector.
Losing more than 46 thousand jobs in the
agricultural sector
Agriculture stopped in more than 70 thousand acres (70 hectares) of
irrigated land and agricultural land privileged.
We remind you that the
agriculture sector was the target of destruction and dredging, by the
Israeli army, over 8 years.
The losses dredging was about $ 2 billion as a result of direct and
indirect damage.
Damage resulting from the
closures would be several hundreds of
millions of dollars
annually.
Reported by: Nizar al
Wahidi
General Directorate of
Planning and Policies
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