Gaza businesses will take time to recover from Israeli attacks
The unemployment rate is among the highest in the world and more than half of the population lives below the poverty line
Updated 47 min 43 sec ago
HAZEM BALOUSHA
May 24, 2021 00:56
GAZA CITY: Alaa Al-Banna had been waiting anxiously for the Eid Al-Fitr season to recover some of the business losses he had suffered because of the coronavirus lockdown in the Gaza Strip.
He bought new goods, placed them in a warehouse, and waited for the holidays. But the Israeli attacks on Gaza began days after the lockdown was lifted.
“The assault came to shatter all my hopes,” the 29-year-old perfume and accessory store owner told Arab News.
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AL-MUKALLA: Iran-backed Houthis have defied US and UN calls to halt their deadly offensive on Yemen’s central city of Marib by drumming up supporters to join the battlefields.
A day after the US slammed the militia for snubbing the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths in Muscat and refusing to halt their military operations, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthis, the president of the militia’s supreme revolutionary committee, said on Twitter that the movement would continue reinforcing the battlefields with new fighters and equipment and would keep fighting until they outright defeat their opponents.
Thousands of rebel fighters and government troops have been killed in fierce fighting since February, when the Houthis renewed a major offensive to seize control of Marib, the government’s last stronghold in the country’s north.