Paving Gaza to put up a colossal trans-shipment hub and free zone
Paving Gaza to put up a colossal trans-shipment hub As the popular Joni Mitchell song ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ goes “paving paradise to put up a parking lot”, Gaza also seems destined for a flatter future, gone soon will be the concrete jungles in which nearly 2.3 million Palestinians live, bombed to oblivion through the brutal efficiency of the Israeli air force, its people evicted or worse, killed off. Gaza’s coastal location at the meeting point between Asia and Africa, its large tracts of flat terrain and easy sea access make it a tempting site for a mega trans-shipment facility and economic free zone for Israeli and international companies. Brand new purpose-built facilities set up after the dust of demolition settles to serve the anticipated needs of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) , a multi-modal commercial corridor that aims to change trade patterns between India, Europe and the Middle East. Too big a deal to have it thwarted by the Hamas thorn in the side