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More than a year into Israel’s war on Gaza, “nearly 100 percent” of the besieged territory’s population has been plunged into poverty with a ruined economy and “staggering” unemployment, the UN said Thursday. In the occupied West Bank, where violence has also surged since Hamas’s October-7 attack last year and the war in Gaza, the situation “has been equally concerning”, the UN’s International Labour Organization said. “The impact of the war in the Gaza Strip has taken a toll far beyond loss of life, desperate humanitarian conditions and physical destruction,” Ruba Jaradat, ILO’s regional dire…

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