PARTNERS IN GENOCIDE
The Human and Economic Costs of Starving Hamas
Canadian Projects Cancelled
Canadian Projects Suspended

• $3 million for trauma counselling and other health services for Palestinian children.

• $1 million for improved living conditions for refugees, disbursed through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine.

• $1.5 million to promote human rights and good governance, distributed through Oxfam Quebec.

• $3 million for new homes in the West Bank and Gaza, disbursed through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

• $6.3 million for a joint housing rehabilitation and policy development project with Canada Mortgage and Housing.

• $600,000 from Justice Canada to support an annual justice dialogue between justice ministers from the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Jordan and Egypt.

• $25 million in long-term annual funding and $37 million more for the West Bank and Gaza. announced last year.

• $7.3 million for women’s centres—1/3 of $25 million in total Canadian aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
For an excellent depiction of Israel's manufactured humanitarian crisis in Gaza see Gideon Levy’s satirically titled article: “There is no hunger in Gaza,” Ha'aretz, April 9, 2006.
Socio-Economic Facts about Palestine and Palestinians
33% of the 1.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip live in refugee camps. 90% of the Hamas government’s budget goes to salaries, including 60,000 security personnel.
50% of Palestinians worldwide receive aid from UN Relief and Works Agency. The government employs 150,000 Palestinians, who are responsible for 1 million people.
According to the World Bank, as many as 62% of Palestinian families live on less than $2 a day

In some areas of the Gaza Strip, unemployment is 80%.

In 2002, The U.S. Agency for International Development found that one in five Palestinian children under age five suffers from chronic or acute malnutrition. Last month, because of Israeli obstructionism, the Gaza Strip ran out of flour with which to make bread.

Palestine is dependent on international aid for infrastructure construction projects, such as roads and sewers.

 Under International law, an occupying power must protect the welfare of those under its occupation, but no country will hold Israel accountable