the west bank. gdp has fallen by 22%, unemployment has skyrocketed to 30%, up from 14% before the onslot. well, they called the war, we call it the onslot, also saying because of the supply chain bottlenecks, prices are going up, then incomes are lower and the demand is shaking. next, issue that we have paid more attention to later on in the program, the us treasury secretary janet yellen urging israel to restore economic ties to the west bank. she said that she had called on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. of israel to reduce barriers to commerce for palestinians, then we took a look at another website, it said the gaza war, again they call it war, we call it an onslaught or aggression, turns the west bank into... economic time bomb, well not to say israel's decision to ban cross-border workers and block palestinian funds has pushed the local economy to the brink of collapse. and we squeeze in one more, the world bank warns on the dire state of the palestinian economy because of the continuing w

authority tax revenues, future looks to them, especially since the violence continues in the occupied west bank. hi, i'm kavid taghley, welcome to economic divide. coming up in this program, we will take a look at the warning that was issued by the world bank when it came to the west bank economy. now, one of them is cross-border wages of $5.5 billion that's been affected uh by what's going on in the west bank. that is obviously a big worry for the palestinian economy. next, uh, one of the factors that has contributed to this is... the palestinian authorities tax money being withheld, israel collects that money, uh, the funds withheld uh is something that's affects the economy of palestine, and uh, this is money that pays 143,00 workers to go spend it, but if they don't have it, how can they do that? next, the israeli west bank aggression, over 400 palestinians have been killed, violence continues almost under delhi basis and these two factors obviously impacts uh the economy not only of israel. but also of the occupied west bank. israel's genocidal war on the palestinians in the gaza strip and

the economy of the west bank in israel as a result of the on the side of war is still suffering from lack of economic activity or low economic activity. many stores uh are still uh closed tourism at record low levels and lack of workers top of everything else is playing the economy. whether there's a chance for the palestinians to get back on their feet over israel's economy to get jump started is the subject of this edition of economic divide. coming up in this program: palestine's economy. first we're going to take a look at the gdp decrease. for the fourth quarter minus 33%, then uh the west bank gdp that was a low of minus 20 2%. so uh, there is obvious concern there, unemployment plus 30%, another concern for the economy of palestine. consumer price increases in the west bank is also a source of concern, lower incomes, supply chain bottlenecks and transport costs are some of the factors. then we're going to take a look at israel's banks and uh their credits, well five of them have been downgraded, the higher borrowing costs based on uh the moodi's credit downgrading them, and al

he's born intokaram in the west bank. he holds a doctorate economics from george washington university in the us. he has also worked at the world bank for 15 years. other notable points of his resume, he has served as pa's deputy prime minister, the economy minister, and as abbas's economy advisor. other close to mahmoud abbas, he is not a fatha member. mustafa has also sat on the palestine liberation organization executive committee since the year 2022. now he's also served as the chairman of the palestine investment fund since 2005. this is important since he oversaw a fund with nearly billion dollars in assets, so that's a lot of money. why is that important? not only did he oversaw gaza's reconstruction under hamas rule after earlier war between israel and hamas, mustafa will be responsible for overseeing billions of dollars and expected international aid. the introduction of new prime minister is part of an effort by mahmoud abbas to reform the pa, to create a technocratic government in the west bank. mustafa himself

she believes the west bank was given to her by god.is important because, again, we have the sort of religious fundamentalists allied with the secular state of israel. she would use these religious arguments but also these legalistic arguments that area c was israel's and they were defending it. she describes what they were doing was preventing land theft that palestinians merely by living in the west bank were stealing land from israel. amy: you wrote, they had a gazillion meetings with government bodies to set up the illegal outposts. the farm was activist eyes. israel seizes land while avoiding the legal hurdles of starting official settlements. the settlement ministry said, take people who believe in that bowl as a painting remission and let them spearhead the work to keep control of the land. if you could further elaborate on this very close relationship between the israeli government and the settlers? >> something to note, you read this quote, this is out in the open. this is not a secret. you hear is politicians talking about thi

the west bank continues _ children on the west bank. on the west bank. the west bank continues to deteriorate - children on the west bank. the west bank continues to deteriorate with i bank continues to deteriorate with increasing settler violence, lack of access, and inability for palestinian families to continue on their normal lives. for children to go to school, and parents to go to work. the numbers of children that are killed and injured since october seven have increased drastically, again, of the a16 civilians that have been killed, ten to four child. there's been also been more than a600 civilians injured, nearly one out of six are children. the situation in the west bank continues to get more violence. settler violence rates pre—0ctober at seven were three incidences a day, it is now at eight incidents a day, and there's absolutely no accountability. settlers act with impunity. in many cases, there are reports of idf personnel rejecting or evenjoin in the reports of idf personnel rejecting or even join in the attacks. there is

i'm curious as to the state of affairs in the west bank, i mean this particular piece of news we had uh involving the incident is uh just a little, guess snipit into how dire the situation is there, maybe you can give us an overview, we know that over 500 palestinians have been killed, i think for the month or for the for the year 2024, about 150 or so, but uh, what are we looking at when it comes to the occupied west bank? uh, yes, indeed, the break of explosion, there's a lot of people here that are very angry about what's going on in gaza, just... the hunger and all of this, the killing jingad children, now 27 kids died in the past week for lack of food, but the west bank also is not to be forgotten, the settlers have expanded their destruction, have expanded ethicly cleansing palestinians, the soldiers are on the rampage shooting palestinians, preventing us from even getting out. of our ghettos like the best in ghetto, you to move to another ghetto or another concentration camp, so trip that used to take an hour now takes several hours if at all possible, this this and the contin

and that is another way, the regime controls and restricts the west bank economy. the palestinian leakage to israel is in the range of 3.6% of its gdp. or 17% of total palestinian public revenues. if this did not happen, the pa's revenues could expand palestinian fiscal policy and increase annual gdp by about 4% and generate 10,000 additional jobs per year. that's the end of this quick take segment. don't forget to send us your comments and questions. i'm mattia. i'll see you next week. the situation for both the palestinian and israely economy looks grim unless there's a viable political solution which does not seem to be on the horizon as of yet. the islamic jod actually said something interesting uh it said that even if the onslot and aggression ends given that the other um onslot scenarios don't happen the political. conflict will be open-ended, meaning that the economic atmosphere will still be poisonous, both in the west bank and also in israel. it's a great point that he made there. that is with this edition of the program. thanks for being with us, hope you

of them in the bank, so again the issue is not limited. to the to gaza strip, it is also in the west bank, and this dire warning is appreciated, the problem with warnings that the un and world food bank and everybody else is issuing is that nobody cares, nobody is heading those warnings, everybody knows that we are in a catastrophic situation, but nobody is really paying attention or willing to take action, what needs to be done is sanctions applied on israel, boycot devestments and sanctions, and this is already starting among the civil society, it needs to expand to the governments. we saw some governments begin to respond like brazil and spain and some of the northern european countries, and hopefully that will be accelerating soon, because the situation is indeed very, very di and final question to you um if i can uh have a brief short answer assad abu shakh uh taking a look at the uh way that the uh regime in the west bank is exercising itself with the raids with the detainments so forth and so on um what are the possibilities of uh the crisis getting deeper what kind of scenario do

just getting to stories that need to be covered for policy then joyce in the west bank and the biggest problem is that movement restrictions that when students in the soft over 7 check points, roadblocks flying checkpoints just literally hard for palestinian to move into west texas. so also from my policy that according as i, i year to very hard and they just to, because of the army because of cetera. because of that jeff, when he just, they hard to exit his license bescedy community that has been targeted by federal violence. it's just a, just a policy is perfect and certainly have always mean a target for that. is there any authorities preventing these violations, providing a voice for these communities and being even a source of hope for these communities has made side of things unless i thought this is part of, is it or is it a strategy to control the flow of information to dictate then additives, what's very dangerous being a post and you internalised. unfortunately the press best does not seem to protect them from harm or from being killed. and this is again before october 7th. y

the conditions in the west bank are dire and of course for polish things in the west bank. there is that recognition and expectation that as soon as israel finishes with, let's say it's going to begin intensifying attacks and the lowest banking center attacks against palestinians are increasing and is really ministers are arming, is rarely settlers who are legal in the west bank with new assault life rifles as they have been since october 7th, and then adding to that, i think in light of the travesty and how profoundly violence the, the attack of israel. and the idea is that we're not able to fully process and understand the level and extent of attack that is happening in the west bank. israel is using aerial bombing through drones on palestinian civilian homes. it is locking up refugees in their own refugee camps, including elderly and children for days at a time. now imagine being locked in your kitchen for 3 days. you're 80, you're, you have 0 access to your meds. you have 0 access to a phone, and that's become the norm here. you talk about the increase in settler attacks

consumer price increases in the west bank is also a source of concern, lower incomes, supply chain bottlenecks and transport costs are some of the factors. then we're going to take a look at israel's banks and uh their credits, well five of them have been downgraded, the higher borrowing cos based on uh the moodies credit downgrading them, and also these higher prices are passed to the consumers. israel's genocidal war on the gaza strip and its hostilities toward lebanon has displaced thousands of israeli's inside the regime. thousands of israeli settlers have been forced to leave their towns and villages near the regime's separation line with gaza strep in the south and lebanon in the north. the northern occupied lands are primarily agriculture along with tourist spots and tight communities with small businesses, thus the sudden unexpected and unprepared population drop has shocked the economy. in november, the bank of israel estimated presence at work of 144,00 evacuated settlers, about 40% of whom fled the north had caused israel's economy about 590 million checkles or $158 million dollar e

one month later, the head of the regional. for west bank settlements yasi dagan submitted a proposal to netanyahu to increase the number of jewish settlers in the northern west bank from 170,000 to 1 million by 2050. there are already over 700 thousand israeli settlers living in 176 settlements and 186 so-called out posts in the occupied west bank and east juruslam awards. all of these settlements and outposts and the settlers who live in them are illegal under international law. since occupying the west bank in gaza, israel has unilaterally declared tens of thousands of hectares of so-called. state land for israeli settlements, mushrooming across palestine, these illegal settlements have made life excruciatingly difficult for palestinian communities, aggravating their already dire situation. in addition to depriving the families of a home, which is the main asset and source of mental, physical and economic security, the settlement building and its concomitent devictions of palestinians frequently result in the loss of livelihoods and expansion of poverty. كبرت فيه تيتمت فيه من الاب

more than 50 have been arrested in the west bank. many of them jailed usually without charge, locked up in definitely under what israel euphemistically calls administrative detention. often that means that attacks by settlers in the west bank were more than 500 palestinians have been killed in the last year alone. go on reported. following the news that does come out has its dentures. one month after october, 7th, israel past the new law criminalizing the sharing or consuming of online content, that the is really authorities deem related to terrorism. leading to arrests like this one of a palestinian couple after the woman had changed her. what steps that was the bible for the new law could effect any palestinian, including germ lives in the west bank to face so many challenges. just getting to stories that need to be covered for the student joy in the west bank. and the biggest problem is that move with restrictions that when students in talked over 7 checked points, roadblocks flying checkpoints just literally hard for palestinians

, cantonizing the west bank, killing people, restricting their movement, building you know apartide walls, humiliating people, putting thousands of them in israeli jails, exceprating the land, building more settlements, you see this is this is the the the type of... treatment that israel is give to the palestinians, that is the israelies are beent on the destruction, utter destruction of the palestinian of the palestinians, wherever they might be in historic palestine, whether they are in jerusalem, in bethlehem, the west bank in nabul, in hebron, whatever, in the west bank in gaza, in 1948 areas, whatever, this is the science project which is bent on the destruction of the palestinian people using psychological warfare using propaganda war, using genocidal war, using ethnic cleansing, using collective punishment, using all sorts of maltreatment against the palestinian people, unfortunately the whole world is is not doing anything to the palestinans, they are just standing eitherly by, sometimes they are issuing statements of condemnation, but they are not taking serious action, the

the map had no... place for palestinian in israel still included the occupied west bank and the gaza strip as well as the occupied and illegally annexed golen heights of syria. the little map was in fact the blueprint for the complete elimination of palestine from the region for the sake of the so-called greater israel. israel's. policy of ignoring palestinian's rights as a nation is clearly reflected in its illegal settlement projects. built on usurped territories, these settlements and their cancerous expansion have dashed palestinian's hopes for establishing their own state and ending their lingering limbo as nation under occupation. in recent years, the israeli regime has put settlement expansion at the top of its priorities. in one of the recent cases netanyahu passed a controversial resolution in june 2023 and gave a cart blange to his cabinet to construct more settlements in the occupied west bank. one month later, the head of the regional council for west bank settlements, dagan submitted a proposal to netanyahu to increase the number of jewish settlers in the northern west b

meanwhile, the west bank has been completely blocked, checkpoints closed all across.the country in a three-day presidential election.

, hamas is not in the west bank, so what's going on in the west bank during the last few years? we've been under a really heavy aggression by the israeli army and israeli settlers, so it will be the same, at least for the garzan hamas at least retaliate sometimes you know against the israelis and they were through many wars now with the israelis and their ability is being developed all the time, so they might be able to protect the people or to at least prevent any kind of uh air raids and attacks by the israelis because the israeli knows that hamas will retaliate, so because of that, this is one aspect, the other aspect, why not, yeah, and at the same time, hamas 2006 won in the election, and they didn't even get the chance to rule by that even winning in the in the parliament, and at the same time, all palestinian factions now, and especially those who are in favor of the resistance are saying, okay, let's go back to the pots and form a government. we prefer a unity government of all palestinian factions, but even for the elections, whoever will win the elections should be rul

like in the west bank and jordan.s i said he has been trying to do that since at least the year 2017. and now he has republicans in congress joi support. not only in gaza but throughout the region. attempts to discredit on the un have gotten so bad 18 hints of all humanitarian refugee agencies together with ngos like save the children and care sign a statement convert quote halt to the campaign that seek to discredit the united nations and nongovernmental organizations doing their best to save lives." is making it harder for them to save lives. mr. president, if you want to take a combustible situation i bank and make it even worse then close down schools for kids there. take away any chance of an education. snuff out any hopes they may have for a really?re you want to create instability in jordan, shut down unrwa schools and services why do we king abdullah has warned us about the consequences of shutting down unrwa? and here is the crazy thing moment. prime minister netanyahu has seized on the lies about unrwa being

, is that they want it all for themselves in what they west bank or state in the west bank, you can't israel. their version of one state. so, mr. president, we come full circle. unrwa is established to be a bridge to provide services like education to palestinian refugees after they were displaced. and i am sure its not expect it to be around for so long. but that is because they likely never envisioned that 74 years rise to unrwa would remain unresolved. but it is unrelv now prime miniu is openly opposed president biden's call to resolve it ultimately by enacting a real two-state sole normalization of relations between israel and saudi arabia and the other arab countries who have yet to gn important security needed for the jewish state of israel. and at the same netanyahu wants pea do a two-state solution to to pursue his long-term goal of ending the organization that was born out of that conflict, unrwa, and limg eliminating the services it provides to palestinian refugees. mr. president, the united states should not be complicit in this scheme. we should not be a party to defunding

that has been... created a total chaos, not just in the economy, but in the social life in the west bank. sure. um, what you describe the jihad abdul mohammed is very touching, and uh, the genocide, however, has continued. i think many people, unfortunately, and i don't want to blame people, but when you when you continue hearing hundred every 24 hours or more palestinians are being murdered, there's something that is happening here. where it makes it become uh part of the language now and part of the the landscape that this is normal and uh i think it was riad mansor who said you know this shouldn't be normal when it comes to the world reaction that has have however continued what else do you think can be done uh to stop this genocide from happening yes indeed this is very very uh daughting scary scenario when you have when you have a genes you know as poet here gilscott harren said the revolution will not be televised, but ironically the genocide will, when you see children, as you said hundred children a day on the average of being killed as a direct result and not to mention been mam

this allowed him to send some of his forces to the west bank. jordan's attack on west jerusalem gave israel a good opportunity to completely occupy this city as well as the entire west bank . the second day of the battle on the west bank front the streets of jerusalem continued. the israelis were about to dominate the entire city. jordanian forces retreated step by step from the city of jerusalem. general amer, the commander of the joint staff of the egyptian army, retreated to save the force. a decision that had even more disastrous results for egypt than the day before. this decision caused the confusion of the egyptian forces in sinai created an opportunity to be targeted by the israeli air force. israeli planes were destroying the egyptian ground force in a way. it had tanks against israel, but without air cover , it had become completely defenseless targets. losses this retreat disastrously destroyed the egyptian front in sinai. and this is a complete picture of the defeat of the egyptian army. tens of thousands of egyptian soldiers were cap

the proclusion of any serious future withdrawal from the west bank was the reason why the liquid party put the settlement project on st steroids after its 1977 election victory, the liquid the liquid settlement drive was designed to keep the west bank under permanent israeli control and had both political and strategic dimensions, the israelis, the government never wanted peace, and it's clear from their actions. also with regards to the two state solutions, none of the two state solutions were truly two state solutions, it was always a subjugated palestinian people always, as edward sight. he said that it was instrument of palestinian surrender, a palestinian versiles, the palestinians have effect in effect discounted the unilateral and international acknowledge claim to the west bank and gaza, and this he was referring to the famous oslo accords that was basically, you know, famously they thought this was a great achievement from the israelis, but in actual fact it was just further subjugating the palestinian people and they had to basically surrender most of their land that belonged