If anyone still needs convincing that the so-called political representatives haven’t betrayed the people of Gaza, then the report by Steen Lau Jorgensen, the World Bank’s director for the region should once and for all highlight the criminal behaviour of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Gaza’s economy is in a worse state than any other in the world, with unemployment at a global high, output contracting sharply, and the long-term prospects worrying, the World Bank said.