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UN warns of ‘staggering’ economic devastation in Gaza, occupied West Bank

A boy sells trousers from his stall along a busy market street in Gaza City on June 15, 2024 [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]

Israel’s war on Gaza has devastated the Palestinian enclave’s economy, reducing it to less than one-sixth of its 2022 size, while there has also been a “significant downturn” in the occupied West Bank, according to a United Nations report.

“Production processes have been disrupted or decimated, income sources have disappeared, poverty has intensified and expanded, neighbourhoods have been eradicated, and communities and towns have been ruined,” a report published on Thursday by the UN Trade and Development agency (UNCTAD) found.

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