RAMALLAH, The World Bank and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said yesterday that the results of the Psychological Conditions Survey in Palestine for the year 2022 showed that more than half of the Palestinian society suffers from de…
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Unemployment rate in Palestine hits 24% in 2022, and 31% as per ILO standards – PCBS
RAMALLAH, The unemployment rate among labor force participants in Palestine reached 24% in 2022, compared to 26.4% in 2021, and the total labor underutilization reached 31%, according to the International Labor Organization standards, today said the Pa…
Read moreUS State Department withdraws nomination of a human rights expert to rights commission for criticizing Israel
WASHINGTON, The US State Department yesterday withdrew the nomination of human rights defender James Cavallaro, executive director of the University Network for Human Rights and former Stanford Law and Harvard Law professor, only days after nominating …
Read moreIsraeli forces detain 17 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli forces today detained 17 Palestinians, mostly in predawn raids across the occupied West Bank, according to local and security sources.They said that Israeli forces rounded up a mother along with her son and ransacked their family house in Silwa…
Read moreIsrael detains 10 Palestinians in West Bank raids, most from Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces today detained at least 10 Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank, five of them from the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).It said that in addi…
Read moreEU announces €296 million in support to Palestine
The European Union announced today the 2022 financial assistance package totalling €296 million to the Palestinian people at a signing ceremony held in Ramallah in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas.Of the total package, the EU said €199.2 million…
Read moreAfter visiting Gaza, European diplomats say it is time to end the 17-year-long Israeli blockade
On their first visit to Gaza in 2023, European diplomats today called on Israel to end its 17-year-long blockade of the Gaza Strip.During the visit, 15 European Union Heads of Mission met Palestinian Authority officials; inaugurated infrastructure proj…
Read moreIsrael advances bill to revoke citizenship, residency and deport Palestinians involved in the resistance
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, yesterday passed the first reading of a bill to revoke the citizenship or permanent residency of Palestinians who committed a “terrorist act” and received money from the Palestinian Authority in relation to “terrori…
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