"We are permanently two or three days away from a new war in Gaza," the UN's coordinator for the Middle East peace process told France 24. "For a decade, the situation in Gaza has been 'is badly deteriorated, people live in deplorable conditions, unemployment explodes and a year and a half ago, they lived with three hours of electricity a day ... Social tensions are strong.
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Nikolay Mladenov is also worried about tensions at the border with Israel: "There is a constant risk of escalation between Israeli forces and protesters during demonstrations on the Gaza border. field".
Finally, the diplomat deplores the risk of a lack of reconciliation process between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank. "People do not see a political resolution to their problems," he says, before warning that if a new war breaks out in Gaza, "it will have a terrible impact on the population on the ground, but it will have also regional complications that no one in the Middle East can afford to have ".
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