(Times of Israel) Sue Surkes - Gaza's private sector was due Monday to mount the biggest strike in years to protest a worsening economic crisis. On Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned, "The time is coming near when the infrastructure in Gaza will collapse, leaving many civilians in distress, with no sanitary conditions, exposed to pollution, impure water, and epidemics. The people who are preventing the rehabilitation of Gaza are the people of Hamas." Gaza comedian Adel al-Mashuchi said, "Once we thought about returning to Haifa and Jaffa and liberating Jerusalem. Today we dream that there will be electricity and water and medical treatment; we dream there will be food on the table."
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