Tranlated by Sabrin Qadah 

a recent UNCTAD  report clarified that the latest economic directions in the occupied terrotories concentrate on the following: 

1.Without the employment in Israel and Israeli settlements, unemployment in the West Bank would be in the range of 35 per cent, a rate as high as that in Gaza

2. Weak economic growth and high unemployment have deepened chronic food insecurity

3. Weak economic growth and high unemployment have deepened chronic food insecurity. In 2016, 1.1 million people (21 per cent of the population) in the West Bank and 1.3 million people (73 per cent of the population) in Gaza need some form of humanitarian assistance.

4. House demolition continued in 2015 and accelerated in early 2016, with 587 Palestinian structures demolished between September 2015 and April 2016, while construction of 1,800 housing units in Israeli settlements was initiated and greater expansion planned for 2016.

5. At present, there are approximately 142 settlements in the West Bank, which brings the number of Israeli settlers to about 21 per cent of the Palestinian population of the West Bank.

6. The impact of the 2014 recession, triggered by the Israeli military operation in Gaza, persisted into 2015.

7. overall rate of economic growth: In the West Bank, growth decelerated from 5.3 to 2.5 per cent in 2014–2015, while in Gaza, following a 15 per cent contraction in 2014, growth was a mere 6.8 per cent in 2015, which was too weak given the vast grounds the local economy had lost during the last decade.

8. The main reasons for the 2015 stagnation: (a) the decline in foreign aid, (b) the slow pace of reconstruction in Gaza due to continuing restrictions by Israel on imports that are essential for reconstruction, (d) low levels of disbursement by donors.

9. The economic given data vary among experts concerning economic directions in the occupied Palestinian territories due to the complications correlative to the palestinian economy state in shape an structure imposed by different factors of occupation

10. Permanent unemployment crisis and food insecurity: The unemployment rate in the Occupied Palestinian Territory was 26%, 38% in Gaza, and 18% in the occupied territories.