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Santamaria, Zachary
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Spring 2025
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2025
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When borders shut, Gaza's small economy stalls. This study asks how the Hamas-Israel conflict changed the flow of aid that keeps shops stocked and people working. I pulled monthly truck counts from the UN, spending totals from big charities, market prices for flour, fuel, and wages, and clinic reports, then compared the year before the fighting with the months after it. Trucks fell from about 450 to under 80 a day, aid money dropped by half, Food and fuel prices jumped almost forty percent, and one in three clinics closed each week; a brief January – 2025 cease fire reversed much of that, showing the change is driven by the border, not by lack of goods. Keeping the crossings open and funds steady would quickly cut prices and let jobs and services bounce back, and Israel's block on basic humanitarian aid and closed borders breaks the civilian protections promised in the Geneva Conventions.
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