, david hungerford as an author and economist. david hungerford, welcome to economic divide. uh, all lies are on the humanitarian situation in gaza, that's uh given 100 days or is passed, even that, this uh genocide is continuing. but the same time you have economic crisis unfolding, you're looking at the way that funds are evaporating, you don't have a budget that can keep up with the... war cost, how severely has this genocide or war war impacted west bank's economy both for the israel and the palestinians for that matter? well um the uh we're talking about i think here primarily about cross border workers, that is to say workers who live in the west bank and commute to work in israel, so that has been interrupted and that's that's quite a large economic volume particularly locally around. five and a half billion usd per year, so that's being badly disrupted, and um, certainly it's going to be contributory over the longer run to israel's difficulties in this uh situation. all right, thank you for that. joe quinn joins us now, jo

first up, we have david hungerford, david hungerford is author and economist." david hungerford, welcome to economic divide, um, all lies are on the humanitarian situation in gaza, that's uh given 100 days or is past even that, um, this uh genocide is continuing, but the same time you have economic crisis unfolding, you're looking at uh the way that funds are evaporating, uh, you don't have a budget that can keep up with the war cost, how severely has this genocide or war war impacted west bank? economy both for the israel and the palestinians for that matter, well um the uh we're talking about i think here primarily about cross-border workers, that is to say workers who live in the west bank and commute to work in israel, so that has been interrupted and that's that's quite a large economic volume, particularly locally around five and a half billion usd per year, so that's being badly... disrupted and um certainly it's going to be contributory over the longer run to israel's difficulties in this situation. all right, thank you for that. joe quinn joins us now.