According to a report presented by Shaher Saad, Secretary-General of the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions, on the situation of Palestinian workers in the occupation labor market to the ILO delegation who visited the region last week to investigate the work conditions of Palestinians, Saad talked about the imposed siege on the Gaza Strip.
Saad cautioned against the widespread Zionist allegations to the world, which the Israeli government is trying to promote such as granting more economic facilities for the residents of the Gaza Strip, including easing restrictions imposed on the movement of people across the borders in order to work, or expanding the fishing area and granting similar facilities to treatment seekers and merchants.
Saad also noted the deliberate shading aimed at covering up its crimes and blockading the Gaza Strip.
Saad highlighted that the Zionist entity prevented the entry of various goods, including building materials, which are the main driver of the economic wheel, and the lack of purchasing power and the decrease in imports by more than 26% during the last quarter of 2019.
These conditions contributed to deepening the general deterioration, which pushed unemployment rates to the outskirts The 52%, meaning that there are more than 400.000 unemployed, 69% of them are between the age group (20-29), while the poverty rates exceeded the barrier of 53%, and 68% of the population lacks food security.
There are a million people who live On UNRWA assistance and international and Arab relief organizations in the Gaza Strip, which means that there are 320.000 Palestinian families living below the extreme poverty line, and all of them suffer from the deterioration of basic services, including health care and water supplies.
At the end of the meeting, Saad asked the UN mission to have its report for this year different from the previous ones, because he possesses the adequate foundations to develop the position of the International Labor Organization and move it from the stage of diagnosis to the stage of condemnation and international prosecution of Zionist crimes against workers.
Fishermen in the Gaza Sea, namely, are fed up with the blockade, who are trapped and with the area of the fishing within which they move in dismay.
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