JAKARTA - More than half a million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have lost their jobs since Israel's aggression in October 2023, according to the Palestinian trade union.
In its statement, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions said workers face systematic blockades, closures and daily raids by the Israeli army.
Israel's policies "are a double crime" against Palestinian workers and undermine their natural right to work and live with dignity, he added.
"The Israeli occupation policy of more than two years of continuous aggression has led to the loss of more than 500,000 Palestinian workers, with the unemployment rate rising to unprecedented levels, exceeding 50 percent in the West Bank and more than 84 percent in the Gaza Strip," the statement said, launching Daily Sabah (22/12).
The statement further explained that Palestinian workers suffered losses of more than 9 billion US dollars because they were prevented from reaching their workplaces, in addition to the destruction of the local productive sector, especially agriculture, construction, and services.
According to the statement, 44 workers have been killed, hundreds have been injured, and more than 34,000 others have been detained by the Israeli army since October 2023.
The federation said the Israeli government "bears full responsibility for this massive financial loss and for the killing of dozens of Palestinian workers at military checkpoints or as a result of settler attacks while they were trying to earn a living for their families, which is a blatant violation of international labor conventions and the Geneva Convention."
It is known that the Israeli army has killed more than 70,700 Palestinians and injured more than 170,000 others in Gaza since October 2023.
Attacks by Israeli soldiers and illegal settlers have also killed at least 1,097 Palestinians and injured nearly 11,000 others in the occupied West Bank during the same period.
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