limiting the palestinian economic advancements. now nanak, a correspondent has taken a closer look at what the west bank is experiencing these days and the state of the economy there. while gaza endures the most severe impacts of the ongoing israeli genocidal war, the west bank is grappling with its own economic crisis. over the past 12 months, the economic conditions in the occupied territories have sharply deteriorated. the expansion. of settlements and the presence of the military checkpoints have not only restricted the movement of the palestinians, but also the attaching them from essential trade routes and agricultural lands. according to a report by the united nation conference on trade and development, unicted, economic growth has stagnated with nearly 5% decline in the gdp compared to the previous year. the october war has had catastrophic effects on the palestinian.

economy gdp is projected to decline by 15 to 20%, marking an unprecedented drop. gaza's economy has been thoroughly devastated with poverty and unemployment rates exceeding 90%. of in the west bank, unemployment has surged from 14% to over 32% since the onset of the war. the occupation remains a critical factor of undermining the economy and depriving palestinians of their livel. that without urgent international interventions the west bank's economy may face long-term damage. the report advocates for the immediate lifting of restrictions on movement and trade as well as an end to the policies of occupation that has stiffled the economic growth. various sectors have been severely impacted with approximately 200, palestinian workers losing their jobs. resulting in a financial loss of

20 billion checkles. the policies of finance minister have obstructed revenue clearance, limiting the palestinian authorities capacity to disperse salaries. disruptions in imports and rising costs, particularly following the closure of babandeb have further strained the economy, affecting 140,000 private sector workers and holding numerous small projects. ramifications of the war are extensive with the west bank, bearing the burnt of the dual pressure of occupation and conflict. as the war presists, the economic toll in the west bank continues escalate. for many palestinian families, the aspiration for a stable and prosperous life is becoming increasingly elusive. although the conflict may be concentrated in gaza, its recautions are profoundly felt through the west bank. naqa hamed reporting for press. well let's talk to

our reporter nahmed who joins us right now to tell us more about the west bank's economy in terms of what you said and uh the analys that spoke uh obviously uh it's very bleek um but there if you can tell us about the current situation but also put it into context how the israel regime has made sure that it suppresses palestinian workers in general not allowing them to advance when it comes to the other peers for example. uh like the israelis per say? yes, this is exactly how you described it, and talking about palestinian economy, most analysis say that you can't even talk about an independent economy and a thriving economy under occupation. this is as a first step, but over here for the last 12 months we have seeing, we have been seeing more restrictions, more obstacles, not to mention that for the last 30 years, which is... since the sign the signing of the oslo

agreement, there has been another agreement that is that's related directly to the economy, which is the paris, the paris agreement, which states that the palestinian economy and made the palestinian economy stay of in such a small and dependent and dependent stage, also over here we can't even talk about true improvement or true true industrial industrial development. due to the restrictions that has been imposed by the israeli regime, if we are talking about workers, we are talking about more than 200,000 palestinian workers working inside the occupied territories and they have been banned from entering to their to their working working places. since 12 months now we are talking about totally devastated infrastructure, we are talking about restrictions on importing and exporting, of course we are talking even in the agricultural area, we are talking about

restrictions that may even that may even reach the to extend to what is allowed to palestinians to plant or not, to have water or not, this is actually many restrictions that has... has been put on the palestinian economy, making it a very weak economy, dependent economy on the on the on the occupation, but one thing that we haven't highlighted in the repoint and we would like to mention, it may it may form a bit of hope, a glimpse of hope that the national, the national industries, the small national industries, some of them have been having good numbers due to boycott campaign, which made the people a boycott, boycot. israeli products and international products and move forward to use the national products like like food, beverages and cleaning products that are used inside homes, these numbers are actually are actually nice to be looked at and maybe it's the only glimpse of hope

through this chaos, indeed that's that's a very good point you have, we we have guest with us uh uh who may uh then be asked this from me to see what they think about that uh let me uh first come to you noor if we want to take a look at one of the as aspects of this report, which is an important point, is the fact that you have since operation all the flood happened, roughly about 200 thousand palestinian workers to have the work permits revoked, and at this point they don't have jobs, and now we're looking a year timeline for them to be without jobs, isn't that a perfect recipe in addition to the way that they've been suppressed for them to feel so frustrated that there is going to be an outburst of one. or another similar to what we saw in the gaza strip, because that is indeed what i'm sure they're feeling at this point. i mean, the israeli occupation entity has been shooting themselves in the foot time and time again. what they've tried to do, and this is very much a us strategy as well, and what they tried to do is starve people into

submission or bomb them into submission. they've tried to starve the yemenes into submission with eight year starvation war on the yemen people, they tried to starve the lebanese people into submission to get them to stop resisting. when they manufactured economic crisis in lebanon, um, they tried to stop the the gazan people into submission by by blockading them for years on end, it's been over 17 years i believe, um, they've they're trying to starve the the people in the the palestinians in the west bank, and so this is very much a strategy that that the israely occupation entity um carries out, um, and it very much shoots them in their foot just like you said, um, they are manufacturing now economic economic crisis within of course as well um, because of the the brutal jenis that. that they're um that they're currently um maintaining as well as the yeminies having them an economic choke hold um and and also what they don't realize is that the israeli society is very much used to luxury when when i say luxury i don't necessarily mean the most lavish houses or

whatever i mean just having a tap with running waters electricity and basic food and necessities and so the israeli society will not tolerate living in the ways that they are even the the the settlers that have had to flee the north, lot of them are living in in areas that where whereby they're displaced, and so they're crippling economy um as well as this genocidal unslot is only adding to um adding to the society falling apart and pack in their bags and going back to where they came from. okay, let's pick up on that point and let me ask you matthew if i may um when you take a look at the expenditures of uh uh the israely cabinet the budget has been obviously under so much strain and they have been very late and the budgets and i think they're doing a quarter by quarter, one of the things that stood out was for social services where it had the most allocation of resources and when you dig a little deeper then you realize that the budget that they have for that is actually providing funds for

all those people that have been driven out from northern palestine because of the hezbulah fighters on slot onto that area in solidarity with the palace. so they're basically paying for the israelis to then go out and spend the money. obviously that's not an economy that can stand uh up to that for much longer. yeah, completely agree. um, and it's i think that the economic was that israel and of course the west bank and others in that region are facing are obviously extremely important, but the question is, and it always has been over the past year, israel can't sustain this indefinitely. we still don't know how long it can um and another year is would be or even another three months is going to um engender such suffering and hardship that it's sort of unthinkable. i really think that the decisive factor um uh

won't actually be economic, i think it will be what the united states does and there is an election on the november the fifth which i think is absolutely pibotal. um i i think and i'm... having to reluctantly support the election of donald trump because i don't really agree with the republican message, but i do think that they will be um a bit better uh on the middle east uh crisis, there'll certainly be... lot better on um on what's happening in eastern europe, but i think that that's going to be a more decisive factor, the political decisions made by the west rather than the economic problems um that are happening in uh israel and in palestine. well, i think that uh, i mean that's a point well taken, but i think that maybe could be another problem here is that the west, and particularly the us is deciding the fate of palestinians. let's listen to this, um, we're going to go back to the us secretary of state anthony. lincoln here in this press conference while he was in egypt and listen to what he had to say about what he called

the day after in the gaza strep. the most important thing in this moment is seeing demonstration of political will to finally conclude this agreement uh and that's what we discussed. we also discussed uh in some detail what would be necessary arrangements if an agreement is... is finally reached in terms of the so-called day after uh, what happens in gaza in terms of its uh, its governance, it's security, it's reconstruction, and here as well, uh, egypt is and will be a critical partner, and i think we had uh very useful conversation about that uh today as well. all right, that was the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blincan. well, we actually have mariam sal correspondent joining us from beirot. um, mariam, welcome, uh, i want to ask you about lebanon, but i also want to ask you about uh what i believe uh, i don't know if you think of it uh is one of the core problems is do

you have the us deciding uh what uh palestinians day after is going to look like in the gaza strip, you have them deciding uh through the israel regime executing uh it what the future of lebanon is going to be and the lebanese, isn't that one of the problems here and in particular when it came when it comes to the palestinians in the gaza strip, the palestinians aren't even... involved in those discussions, so that goes to show you just what type of intentions or what, how in a sense ridiculous that really shows itself to be. that is the usual policy of the united states, whether in gaza or in lebanon, and we've always, of course, they have, they've attempted diplomatic pressure and using blackmail on the political level, they have not succeed doing so in palestine and in lebanon also, and so they seem now to be eager, to go on with this military issue and all the talk that we here and these contradictions that you get, in addition to

the fact that they are presenting themselves as being the main patrons or the side that decides the future of the region. we've had this for several decades, not just now, they are reliving uh the dream of georgelb bush and uh kissinger trying to create this new world order, and when they were not capable of doing so through diplomacy and through their so-called pol policies of the carrot and the stick, the fact that and the resistance fronts in the region, especially the resistance in palestine stronger and can really face this hegemony from israel and the us, you see the us now pushing ahead with this military, and whenever we hear from secretary of state blickon, it's it's a it's become a pattern every time he talks about diplomatic efforts or he talks about the... escalation or he talks about an end to the suffering of the palestinian people, we know it's going to be the opposite, we know it's

going to be the other way around, we know that it's going to be just another uh attempt by the us to try to put pressure on politics here, and we're even starting to hear things on the issue of lebanon that they want to now push for candidate that would be closer to the us or back by the us in lebanon, candidate for the presidency in lebanon, as you know we had a stalemate uh several years of no president after... micheln and now they are trying and hazballah of course along with its allies were very strongly supportive of candidate who is pro resistance, now they they believe that through this continuous pressure on the resistance and all the people the resistance they can get some gains on the political level to retrieve their hegemony inside lebanon especially and perhaps enforce a certain candidate who was with the us, in addition to of course trying to break the resistance whether in the military or even politic. thank you for that, that's mariam salah of course want to talking to us from beirot, matthew, i'm going to come to you um

and ask you and challenge you about what you said about the us elections, you think really that it'll make a difference who comes to power and which party uh, when it comes to the fate of palestinians and this case of uh lebanon, there are two different stories in a sense, but at the same time um does the person from either party make a difference in the way the outcome of the... situations are going to be? first of all, i'd say it is difficult to predict the future, secondly, i would say that it is a clear case in eastern over. that there is a that there would be definitive change of policy because trump's been very vocal about saying he wants a peace agreement immediately even before january the 20th um between zelensky and putin so and there is definitely a big problem in terms of the republican party which is that they are um very pro israel however i would still say

that trump is much more of an isolationist um he has campaigned on an anti a more of an anti-w'. ticket um and i think even the the comments that he does make about um israel and specifically about iran are a little bit more um careful and conciliatory than what the biden administration said there has been some things that have been taken out of context i think where it looks like trump is being very aggressive on iran bause i think he wants to give that posture um but i think actually in practice he will be - kind the kind of player who will be more uh interested in um not just withdrawing american power, but also remembering, he's got this sort of slightly crazy thing, donald trump, which is he wants to save money, he keeps wanting to withdraw from organizations like nato because the actual costs, so the idea of him actually providing billions and billions of dollars more of aid into a fruitless war um that

doesn't that doesn't help anyone's business or economy um uh i think the idea of him doing that uh will be... be a massive turn off to his administration, so i'm not saying that he's at all good on israel or palestine or anything, but i do think that that small difference might make a big effect um when it comes to the new year. all right, uh, thank you for that uh, we are going to change a little bit of our uh focus here uh if i may before i come to you nure and uh take a look at uh the situation of one of the resistance countries if you want to call them. um, i mean, this country has been incredible, every friday uh, for the past year, you have millions of their population come out, and i'm talking about yemen, but they have done so in solidarity with the palestinians and they have done it because of how they have approached this area that we're looking at. this is the babel mandap straight right in the yemen, where you see that uh tiny waterway, and there's babel mandab as it's uh

uh been uh stated there, lot of business flows through this area and in particular that straight. "we outlined some of the activity of this straight in particular, such as the oil production, such as the oil that travels through there, 6.2 million barrels, the global trade amounts to about 10%, daily $26 billion dollars and value of uh trade that flows through uh that area, they have actually carried out and targeted uh the um israeli-bound vessels and ships when it comes to uh them showing solidarity with the palestinians with one particular aim in mind but" doing this, not because they want to uh focus just on firing missiles, but they want the genocidal war to stop, and that is the core reason they have focused in this area and they have shown how effective that has been, one of the key uh countries, the yemeny army, its army, the yemeni army to have executed this, noor, we need to talk about

yemen, abdul malik al huti uh spoke the yemini leader tonight, and they have been steadfast, would you... think about the way that they've approached the whole palestinian issue and whether you think it's effective or not? i think it's extremely effective. um, they practically have the israeli occupation entity an economic chokehold. this has never happened before, whereby you have a resistance faction, you have a state um, you know, bombing us um ships in the sea, that has never, no one has ever dared to do that to us warships, but the yeminies have shown that they simply do not care and they simply want to achieve their objective which is get to... get the israely occupation entity to stop their brutal genocide on the people of gaza, and i think what the again another way that these israely occupation entity has shot themselves in the foot is that every time there's there's outcomes um to um to their behavior and and one of the outcomes is that it's actually united the resistance spr you know it's united the the yemenis, iraqies, syrian, iranian, lebanese and as well as

palestinians or resistance front which was something we've actually never seen before um and so they all um coordinated. in their attacks, you've got and the yeminies were attacking um the the israeli occupation entity economy um whereas the other resistance factions are focusing on on other means and um for instance you have the lebanese that are that were at the beginning sort of um engaging up in operations sort of like make sure that the occupation entity becomes blind on the border by targeting the spireware and equipment on the border um and then you know it escalated since then but but you know the yeminies actually played a very important role in in um in attacking the israely occupation entity um economy um crippling them in that sense and this really long war retrition over that over the year has has really fatigued fatigued the entity indeed and they have paid a heavy price and some respects for it also. thank you so much to both of you, matthew alford, academic and commentator, and also new fecherry, journalist and political activist, both from london. thank you for your contribution. well

reach the end of the program and i'd like to turn our attention to uh, yusuf abu rabi, that's his name, he's from gaza, he lives in the city of baitlahiya and he has story. السلام عليكم اسمي يوسف صقر ابو ربيع من مدينه غزه مقيم في مدينه بيت لاهيه عمري 24 سنه خريج هندسه زراعيه من جامعه الازهر واعمل في القطاع الزراعي يعني منذ ما اعين على الحياه لانه مدينتنا مدينه بيت الله مدينه الزراعيه مدينه بيت لاهيا تشتهر في محصول الفراوله الذي نعتز به جميعا في فلسطين يعتبر المنتج الفلسطيني الاول في العالم من حيث الجوده وكل المواصفات العالميه وكنا المصدرين لكل الدول ولكن للاسف في دخول هذه الحرب الطاحنه والمستمره كنا على ابواب ومشارف هذا المحصول لحتى يتم انتاجه ولكن

للاسف تم تدمير اكثر من 4000 دونم من محصول الفراوونه and that does it for this edition the program: debucking the myth will be back tomorrow when it's officially october 7th in this part of the world west. asia, thank you so much for tuning into us, we do appreciate it, from me kavaway and the tire team here, this goodbye, until tomorrow, the month of march began with the united nations calling for investigation into the... tragedy of the eight convoy everyone knew that israel had no red lines for its crimes. on march 10th, ramadan began without a sice

fire being established. israel had no intention of a stopping the violence, even during the holy month. on march 18th, israel attacked al shah hospital again. meanwhile, the ipc announced that gaza was on the brink of a starvation, which is likely to occur in northern gaza by may. for the first time on march 25th, the united nations passed immediate cease fire resolution in gaza, a resolution that everyone knew netanyahu would not care about.

firstly i want to tell the journalists who want to report from the frontlines that they shouldn't go there in search of fame, instead they should bear a message and have cause to defend. the media warfare is essential because the camera has become a weapon ache into the rifle and the missile used by the resistance fighters. media is double edge sword and we should wield it carefully. indeed, rifles and cameras have become complementary weapons. we can't separate them. our message is to support the truth against the falsehood.

perhaps we might not hear the words of our leader anymore, or we might not listen to new speech of his and get that ease, but we know for fact and we have the faith that he lives in every single heart of ours, and every single child. and the the resistance is will not stop based on one leader, the prese rolling cover of this ascination of manimani now entering its uh fourth day.

7th 2023 defining moment in the history of the region.