he served in the ecumenical accompanyment program in palestine and israel and hibron and jericho. gabriel suarez, welcome to economic divide. uh, the economy of the west bank is uh in trouble. you got 170,00 palestinians that have been taken out of the economy because of this really regime preventing them from uh coming to work. a decline in consumption as a result, uh, you have a reduction in the uh tax revenues is another. example, result of that uh restriction, and this is money that israel collects on behalf of the pa. how can there be any hope for the west bank economy? um, when you have those types of uh practices by the israeli regime, and uh, what are we looking at uh when it comes to the future uh, when there's such violence happening in the occupied west bank as a whole? the situation in in the west bank was a really suffering from the... since the beginning of 200 there has been a stepped up in violence and restrictions with the new government, settler violence was very much problem with palestinians, both that in their own places like in the agriculture, having their l