The people of Gaza are being exploited by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority

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.

Mr Jorgensen’s analysis is vitally important given the dominant anti-Israel narrative of the moment.

He reinforced that “Gaza’s economy is in a worse state than any other in the world” due to “repeated rounds of conflict, internal divisions and the embargos of Israel and Egypt” (Irish Examiner, World News, May 23).