Gaza unemployment rate soars to nearly 80 percent amid war: UN agency

The Hill ^ | 06/07/2024 | FILIP TIMOTIJA

[ChicagoConservative27]

The unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip has soared to nearly 80 percent amid the Israel-Hamas war that has been raging since October, according to a United Nations labor agency report released Friday.

The war has caused a massive amount of job loss, bringing the unemployment rate in Gaza to 79.1 percent, according to the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) assessment.

Unemployment in the West Bank, which has also been rocked by the conflict, has reached 32 percent. The unemployment rate across both territories now sits at 50.8 percent.

The unemployment numbers do not account for those people who have left the workforce, with jobs being unobtainable, therefore those figures are even higher than what the unemployment rate numbers show, according to the assessment.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Screw the UN and why should I care?

[ComputerGuy]

I hear all the Wal-Marts have shut down.

[faithhopecharity]

send the basturds home to Egypt/Arabia/Krapistan with a free bus ticket to the nearest employment placement office

[riverrunner]

You are a 100% right.

[BenLurkin]

To all appearances, terrorism is the only thing the Arabs there produce.

And the UN foots the bill for it.

[yldstrk]

Well they asked for it.

[KarlInOhio]

Awwww! The car bomb factory has been blown up.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Screw the UN and all its New World Order subsidiaries. We need to stop funding that corrupt crowd of usurpers. Until 80% of those who work for the UN and its subsidiaries are unemployed freedom is at risk.

As for the Gazans, they voted Hamas into power and were too pusillanimous to get rid of that corrupt group of thugs. They are reaping what they sowed.

[thegagline]

And the 20% who are employed, work for Hamas.

[joshua c]

this is the first time i have ever seen an article about the unemployment rate in a war zone

its kind of a given

[butlerweave]

You can’t trust the UN it’s lies right to your face

[Bernard]

Terrorist doesn’t count as a job? I wonder if Joe want to pay off their student loans while he is at it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hamas is hiring. Big signing bonus. *SMIRK*

[EandH Dad]

Either Ham-ass knew this would happen, which makes them evil, or they had no idea which would make them stupid. Probably about half and half.

[EERinOK]

80% today. Up from 79 since inception. Hamas was the biggest “employer”

[Gene Eric]

Was it 79.9% prior to Oct7 ?

[HYPOCRACY]

They need to raise the minimum wage in Gaza. Double the pay to 20 rubbles an hour.

[PeterPrinciple]

tunneling work is down?

[Uncle Miltie]

Polls show 80% of Gazans approve of murdering Jews when they find them.

Karma’s a b*tch.

[Uncle Miltie]

“rubbles”

LOL!