VIDEO | Palestinians Face Discrimination in Israeli Economy, Majority Live in Poverty

The Real News Network (TRNN) / November 3rd, 2013 Shir Hever, an economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour: Official Israeli statements on integrating Palestinians into workforce exposes apartheid system. Still living in fairy-tale-land about Israel? Time to wake up: The Map of the “Greater Israel” even […]

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Citizen tries to burn himself in Bethlehem in poverty protest

[ PIC 25/07/2013 – 11:14 AM ] Archive photo of a man dousing himself with gasoline at a protest in Ramallah BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Palestinian man tried to set himself on fire, inside the headquarters of Bethlehem Governorate south of the West Bank, in protest at economic hardships after government agencies refused to help him. Local […]

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VIDEO | Poverty rising in Gaza because of Israeli blockade

Published on Feb 13, 2013 Nearly 1.7 million Gazans are still suffering from high poverty and unemployment rates because of the suffocating blockade imposed by the Israeli regime. Many Palestinians in this tiny coastal enclave can’t even buy new clothes. They have to buy second hand clothes due to their relatively cheap price. Some even […]

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Palestinian Man Self-Immolates to Protest Poverty and Unemployment in Gaza

 Tuesday September 04, 2012 09:44 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News A 20-year old Gazan man killed himself in a public act of protest Sunday, dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire. Palestinians at the Gaza border (image by Klearchos) The family of Ihab Abu Nada said that he was frustrated at being […]

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Report: More than 80 percent of Jerusalem people under poverty line

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures [ 27/11/2011 – 09:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An annual report issued by an Israeli group called the national insurance institute in the occupied Palestinian territories said that more than 80 percent of Palestinian natives in east Jerusalem are living under poverty line. […]

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PCBS: 1 in 4 Palestinian children live in poverty

Related: When will the UN bring Human Rights to Palestine? Maan News Agency | Nov 20, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than a quarter of children in the West Bank and Gaza live in poverty, the official statistics agency said in a report marking universal children’s day on Sunday. According to data collected by PCBS […]

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In Gaza, poverty forces children to choose between survival and school – video

UNICEF correspondent Catherine Weibel reports on children in Gaza who risk their lives to feed their families and help them survive. For more information, please visit: http://www.unicef.org Special Topic | Palestinian Children Special Topic | Ethic Cleansing In pictures Children of Palestine More pictures in the Gallery Images | الصور

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£349m to Tackle Poverty in Occupied Palestine

7th July 2011 | From Asian Image Britain has set out how it plans to tackle poverty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) over the next four years, International Development Minister Alan Duncan has announced. Of the approximately four million people living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, a quarter currently live below […]

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Official report confirms 4.8 million Palestinian refugees living in poverty and unemployment

Monday, 20 June 2011 16:15| MEMO On Sunday, June 19th, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) issued a report stating that, scattered across dozens of camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and Gaza Strip), the minimum number of Palestinian refugees registered with the UN Relief and Works Agency […]

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Gaza Fishermen Face Death at Sea and Poverty at Home

PNN – Palestine News Network – 30.12.10 – 11:32 Gaza City – Muhammad al-Astal – Al-Quds Palestinian fishermen face great difficulties at work on the Mediterranean Sea: even after continual naval assaults by Israeli troops that have lead to several recent deaths and injuries and major damage to their boats and fishing equipment, there is […]

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Olive Trees and the ‘Feminisation’ of Poverty at a Jordan Bazaar | Al Bawaba

Hawash was one of dozens of rural women from across the region who showcased their crafts and stories at the opening of the Regional Rural Women’s Bazaar on Wednesday Facing economic hardships in her West Bank village, Najieh Hawash turned to the one thing she has known her entire life: olive trees. Hawash’s olivewood carvings […]

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Living conditions of Palestinian refugees worse than believed – study

Research shows refugees twice as likely than other Lebanese to live in poverty By Simona Sikimic   Wednesday, December 15, 2010 BEIRUT: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are two times more likely to live in poverty than other Lebanese people, preliminary report findings released Tuesday have shown. The “Socio-Economic Survey of Palestine Refugees in Lebanon” is […]

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