Gaza _ Palestine News Network
A Palestinian People´s Committee on Sunday warned that the average daily income per capita in the Gaza Strip was less than $2.
The People´s Committee to face the siege of Gaza said in a statement received by the news agency (Dr. B. A) a copy today that 85 percent of the more than 2 million Gazans live below the poverty line.
The Committee pointed out that this has compounded suffering and weakened families and reduced the chance of obtaining their basic needs reasonably as a result of the dangerously high rates of poverty and unemployment, which are, for the most part, the world´s worst.
The Commission estimated the economic losses in the Gaza Strip during 2018, direct and indirect, at $300 million, considering that the 2018 harvest was the hardest for the sector since the Israeli occupation in 1967.
"The Gaza Strip is experiencing an unprecedented economic and humanitarian situation as a result of the ongoing and systematic blockade, which is essentially aimed at striking the local economy," she said.
Israel continued to prevent the entry of hundreds of goods into Gaza, the most important of which was the raw materials needed for the industry, affecting about 90 per cent of the factories, and exacerbated their suffering due to the effects of the blockade, which severely curtailed the population´s liquidity for lack of income, as a result of the disruption of nearly 300,000 workers and thousands of graduates.
She warned that unemployment rates among young people in the Gaza Strip had risen to nearly 65 percent, with hundreds of shops, factories and workshops closed completely during the year, in an unprecedented development in the impact of the economic downturn.
The People´s Committee for the siege of Gaza called for pressure to compel Israel to completely lift the blockade and increase financial support for all humanitarian and service projects and employment projects for workers and graduates.
