45 countries have higher rates of poverty than Gaza

From IndexMundi:

Population below poverty line

1	Chad	80
2	Haiti	80
3	Liberia	80
4	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	71
5	Sierra Leone	70.2
6	Nigeria	70
7	Suriname	70
8	Swaziland	69
9	Zimbabwe	68
10	Burundi	68
11	Sao Tome and Principe	66.2
12	Zambia	64
13	Niger	63
14	Comoros	60
15	Honduras	60
16	Namibia	55.8
17	Guatemala	54
18	Mozambique	54
19	Senegal	54
20	Malawi	53
21	Mexico	51.3
22	Bolivia	51.3
23	South Sudan	50.6
24	South Africa	50
25	Madagascar	50
26	Kenya	50
27	Eritrea	50
28	Lesotho	49
29	Gambia, The	48.4
30	Cameroon	48
31	Guinea	47
32	Tajikistan	46.7
33	Burkina Faso	46.7
34	Sudan	46.5
35	Nicaragua	46.2
36	Yemen	45.2
37	Rwanda	44.9
38	Belize	43
39	Djibouti	42
40	Cote d'Ivoire	42
41	East Timor	41
42	Angola	40.5
43	Mauritania	40
44	Mongolia	39.2
45	Grenada	38
46	Gaza Strip	38
47	Benin	37.4
48	Colombia	37.2
49	Papua New Guinea	37
50	El Salvador	36.5

The total number of areas ranked is 157, meaning that Gaza has a lower poverty rate than about 30% of all countries worldwide.

But you already knew that from the amount of media coverage of poor people in those other 45 countries, of course.

By the way, there are more poor Saudis than there are Gazans altogether.

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This will be the second furniture export from Gaza this year.

Although Hamas claims that Egypt is going to open up the Rafah crossing for exports, this shipment is being transferred through the Kerem Shalom crossing, where Israel will transport it to the nearby Nitzana/Ouja crossing to Egypt. From there the shipment will be sent to Tunisia.

Yes, Israel is cooperating with Gaza exporters and Egypt to send furniture to a hostile Islamist Arab country that doesn't recognize Israel.

I'm sure that this proves Israel's racism somehow.

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From COGAT:

A two-year old Palestinian boy from the West Bank underwent a bone marrow transplant three weeks ago. The procedure, which was done at the Tel Hashomer hospital, was funded by the Civil Administration after the Palestinian Authority refused the family`s request to fund the procedure.

“This procedure will save the child's life,” explained Dalia Bessa, the Health Coordinator for the Civil Administration. “When this sort of procedure is needed and the Palestinian Authority refuses to fund it, the Civil Administration steps in, in order to save lives.” The Civil Administration funds hundreds of operations and medical treatments each year, besides this transplant. The budget for medical treatment for Palestinians is 7.5 million NIS; these funds are invested in Palestinians who require transplants and other forms of medical care.

Besides undergoing the transplant, the child is under the care of a social worker who has been attending to the child and family's needs throughout the duration of the hospital stay. “My position entails taking responsibility over Palestinian patients from the minute they are admitted until they are released from the hospital, while coordinating with the Civil Administration and Dalia Bessa,” said Baloum Raid, a social worker who coordinates the hospitalization of all Palestinian patients at Tel Hashomer.

The PA apparently believes that the $130 million it pays every year to terrorists in Israeli prison, and to the families of dead terrorists, is more important than to pay to save their own children's lives.

COGAT is part of the IDF.

Which means that the Israeli army puts a higher priority on saving Palestinian Arab lives than the PA does.

Somehow I missed this story in the BBC and the New York Times.

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