Hamas budget shows another tough year ahead for Gaza - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Omar Shaban

Omar Shaban

Mar 17, 2014

Tunnel workers sit outside a smuggling tunnel on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip February 17, 2014. Voices of construction workers and the noise from their tools used to ring out in Gaza's streets. Now hulks of unfinished buildings stand in eerie silence, and the idle builders are left to worry how to make ends meet. An Egyptian-Israeli blockade on Gaza, run by the Hamas Islamist movement, has left industry and construction gasping for resources, pushing unemployment to dizzying heights — Tunnel workers sit outside a smuggling tunnel on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 17, 2014. — REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

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Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal gives a speech during a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, in Gaza City December 8, 2012. Meshaal, in an uncompromising speech during his first ever visit to Gaza after decades of exile, told a mass rally on Saturday he would never recognise Israel and pledged to "free the land of Palestine inch by inch". REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY CIVIL UNREST)

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