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Halting Palestine's Democratic Decline

“Palestinians will not accept dictatorship. People want to be free,” one Palestinian adviser on the conflict with Israel said in March.
1 But since the last Palestinian parliamentary election in 2006, Palestine’s nascent democracy has been slowly squeezed by Israeli occupation and increasingly authoritarian Palestinian leaders. Now, fifteen years later, President Mahmoud Abbas has finally scheduled parliamentary and presidential elections. Rumors abound as to whether they will materialize. Ninety-three percent of eligible voters across Gaza and the West Bank have registered of which roughly half (ages eighteen to thirty-three) have never voted. For some Palestinians, it is a moment of hope; for the EU, it is a moment of sobriety. ....

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Israel must protect Palestinian economy from the pandemic

Israel must protect Palestinian economy from the pandemic
Beth Oppenheim
February 22, 2021 21:55
Trucks pass through the Kerem Shalom/Rafah crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza from Egypt and Israel, July 17, 2018. (AFP)
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The UN has found that 2020 was one of the worst years for the Palestinian economy since 1994. Gaza has borne the worst of the economic pain. Last summer, when one sweet factory in Gaza advertised five vacancies, 2,000 jobseekers turned up at the office and 20,000 applied online. Since the pandemic hit, movement to and from the Strip has been virtually frozen, primarily by Israel, but also by Hamas. Decades of Israeli closure, occupation and conflict had already corroded the Palestinian economy and vital infrastructure, particularly Gaza’s. At the end of 2020, unemployment in the Strip stood at almost 49 percent, compared to nearly 19 percent in the West Bank. ....

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