meet the demands which will be 550 MW. In terms of the health sector, it was projected before the 2014 war on Gaza that there will be a need of over 1,000 additional doctors and 2,000 nurses by 2020.224 However, the recent war destroyed and partially damaged 17 hospitals, 56 health care centers and 45 ambulance vehicles.225 Likewise, much of the educational infrastructure was destroyed in the 2014 war, creating a need for additional 440 new schools by 2020. Thus, as stated in a report by the UN Country Team in the oPt, “In the absence of sustained and effective remedial action and an enabling political environment the daily lives of Gazans in 2020 will be worse than they are now. There will be virtually no reliable access to sources of safe drinking water, standards of healthcare and education will have continued to decline, and the vision of affordable and reliable electricity for all will have become a distant memory for most.”226 “Honestly, the situation in Gaza can’t get any worse. A city of 200,000 people doesn’t even have a hospital! The closest hospital is more than a 20-minute drive. During the wars, injured people were treated in the streets, not hospitals or clinics, and the dead were put in vegetable fridges. Many bodies were put in the shop fridges. I have a friend whose father was really sick and he needed a specific type of test for the operation he had to have. He was really sick to the extent that we thought that he was going to die. He went to the hospital to make an appointment for the test and the next one available was in 2020, four years away. Luckily, my mother works in a hospital and spoke to one of the doctors and my friend’s father didn’t have to wait for four years. This man was lucky, but not all people in Gaza know someone who works in a hospital who can help. Those people usually die. My mom tells me about the terrible conditions in the hospital where she works. If someone comes to the hospital with a broken arm or leg, the hospital will put him in a bed and give him pain killers and then ask his father, mother or brother to go and buy the medical materials and the plaster. The hospital doesn’t always have the medication or materials. This happens a lot! Last year in the UNRWA clinic close by, they started using syringes more than once. They started throwing away the needles after using them but kept the syringes and used them again after cleaning them. 224 Id., 3. 225 UNCTAD, Report on UNCTAD assistance, 11, supra note 222. 226 UN Country Team, Gaza in 2020, 16, supra note 223. 62