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.

[Magnum44]

So 80% of Hamas terrorists are not getting paid their salaries…

[ridesthemiles]

CRY ME A RIVER

[EinNYC]

">>>Are accompanied by widespread devastation of economic activities and livelihoods,” said Ruba Jaradat, the ILO regional director for Arab states. “This compounds the suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and further endangers their safety and wellbeing.”

Great. Let's endanger their safety and wellbeing some more. Like, wipe them off the face of the earth.

[Paco]

SMH...never heard of the question being asked in a war zone. Although, have to assume, it was much worse in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Guadalcanal, Normandy, Berlin, London and others were probably hit pretty hard too (to be fair...).

[mass55th]

Running out of goat f’ers to fill those Hamas terrorist slots?

[frank ballenger]

Does “terrorist” as a job only count as part-time, seasonal employment?