This means that the economy of the full Palestinian Authority (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) has decreased by 35% over a year. According to the latest report, it will take at least 10 years to rebuild the Gaza economy to pre-war levels, assuming the current level of humanitarian aid is maintained. The process could velocity up if support was increased and Israel eased the limitations on Palestinian work.
The forecasts in this study show that alongside the current sufferings and the tragic number of fatalities, there is simply a beginning of a serious improvement crisis that threatens the future of future generations of Palestinians – said Achim Steiner, UNDP chief.
UNDP warns that the social improvement rate for Gaza and the full Palestinian Authority in 2024 could fall to the lowest level since 2004, erstwhile statistic for the region began to be kept. By extrapolating the available data, the organization predicts that this indicator for the full Palestinian Authority will go back to the level of 2000, and for the Gaza Strip to the level of 1955.
Scary statistics
According to the Ministry of wellness of the Gaza Strip, more than 42.7 1000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war and more than 100,000 have been injured. The Hamas-controlled office does not supply in its reports a discrimination between civilian casualties and militants of Palestinian armed organizations.
Israel began military action in the Gaza Strip after the Hamas attack, in which about 1,200 people were killed. The Israeli military reported that about 17,000 Hamas terrorists and another groups were killed during the year. Estimates from various UN agencies indicate that 90% of the about 2.15 million people in the Gaza Strip became interior refugees due to the war, and any of them fled respective times. Almost the full population is threatened by food insecurity and dependent on humanitarian aid.
Tens of victims in fresh days
Let us callback that last Saturday, at least 87 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack on the city of Bajt Lahija in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian wellness officials were then alerted to difficulties in taking emergency action, due to the cut off of telecommunications and online services.
It's genocide and cultural cleansing. The occupier made a terrible massacre in Bajt Lahiji – announced Hamas press office.
