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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Maziar Motamedi

Israel’s ‘financial stranglehold’ on Palestinian land must end: UN experts

Palestinians walk as smoke rises from the evacuated Al-Ghifari Tower, after it was hit by Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City, September 15, 2025 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

United Nations experts have warned of catastrophic economic damage as a result of Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and its “wider financial stranglehold” across occupied Palestinian territory.

“Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated forced displacement,” the experts, including a special rapporteur and three UN-backed independent experts, said in a statement.

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