After A year of war ILO Says that Unemployment Surges to Nearly 80 Per Cent and GDP Contracts by Almost 85 per cent in Gaza

A year of war in Gaza has caused unprecedented and wide-ranging devastation of the labour market and wider economy across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The unemployment rate in Gaza and the West Bank, the two areas comprising the OPT, surged to an average of 51.1 per cent over the past 12 months, according to A Year of War in Gaza: Impacts on Employment and Livelihoods in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the fifth and latest in a series of bulletins from the ILO and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

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