for more, we are joined by raja khalidi.e is the director-general of the palestine economic policy research institute. he joins us from ramallah in the occupied west bank. thank you so much for being with us. if you can start off by talking about whose money is this? and talk about the amount that is supposed to go to gaza and the west bank and how israel has control over it. why do they have control over it? >> thank you a lot, amy, for this chance to talk with you. before plunging into the dirty details of the economics of this war, i want to say a word of tribute to the journalist like akram, so many who have been reporting, who have been shocking as every day and what is more shocking, talking about millions of us watching and listening around the world, what is most shocking is they are still able to do their jobs so well and so professionally. we will come back to gaza, but you don't need an economist to tell you to what is happened to the economy of gaza. the entanglement of palestinian authorities public finances wit