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<h1 class="gmail-post-title entry-title">‘Israel’ deliberately
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<p>September 21, 2021 - <a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=29544"
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<p>Besieged Gaza Strip (QNN)- The Euro-Mediterranean Human
Rights Monitor said that following Israel’s latest aggression
on the Gaza Strip, the Gaza’s productive<br>
sectors and economic structures, which were already fragile
due to years of siege and the impact of the Coronavirus
pandemic, directly and indirectly affected.</p>
<p> In its report released in September and examined the
“Israeli attack’s impact on the economic sectors of the Gaza
Strip, Euro-Med revealed that the Israeli forces during the
11-day aggression last May carried out “precision and focused
air or artillery attacks on economic facilities containing
factories and production and service units, specifically
factories that produce plastic, nylon, and food products, in
addition to renewable energy projects.”</p>
<p>In addition to targeting production facilities in different
areas in Gaza, Euro-Med said the Israeli forces “deliberately
targeted the Gaza Industrial Estate (GIE)” which is one of the
largest production complexes in Gaza, “where a considerable
amount of Gaza’s production operations take place, as it
contains dozens of<br>
factories and companies that employ hundreds of workers.”</p>
<p>“The Israeli army artillery targeted GIE for days with dozens
of shells, which caused massive fires in the production
facilities. To make matters worse, the fires continued for
days,” it said.</p>
<p>The human rights group said by “examining the Israeli army’s
behavior and the nature of the precise munitions it used to
target economic facilities, it becomes obvious that Israel may
have deliberately targeted the productive sector in Gaza to
cause severe, long-term damage to its productive capacities
and to stifle<br>
any efforts to achieve economic development in the beleaguered
sector of more than 15 years.”</p>
<p>The direct Israeli attacks caused widespread damage and
destruction to more than 100 factories, residential buildings,
towers that contained multi-service shops, industrial
workshops, educational institutions, training centers, and
agricultural areas, some of which contained livestock and
poultry farms, Euro-Med added.</p>
<p>It added that the fishing sector also received a major blow
after Israel closed the sea, prevented fishing throughout the
aggression and its aftermath, and repeatedly reduced the
fishing area as a form of collective punishment.</p>
<p>The head of the Fishermen’s Syndicate in Gaza, Nizar Ayyash,
told Euro-Med Monitor that the closure of the sea during the
Israeli attack caused the disruption of more than 4,000
fishermen, who support about 50,000 people. He said that the
closure caused indirect damages estimated at $2 million,<br>
in addition to losses estimated at $170,000 due to the direct
bombardment that targeted several docks in the governorates of
the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>According to a report issued by the Higher Governmental
Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, the total direct
losses and damages in the economic sector from the Israeli
military attack on Gaza amounted to $479 million distributed
on the housing, infrastructure, economic development, and
social development sectors.</p>
<p>A Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) in the Gaza Strip
between May 25 and June 25, 2021, conducted by the World Bank,
the United Nations, and the European Union revealed material
damage of $380 million and<br>
economic losses of $190 million.</p>
<p>As for stopping economic flows, production, and services, the
Israeli attack caused losses ranging from 105 to 190 million
dollars.</p>
<p>Israeli bombing apparently deliberately destroyed about 300
economic facilities in the industrial sector that employed
about 4,000 workers and disrupted the work of all factories
during the attack, the group said, adding this disruption
continued in many factories after the attack, while other
factories reduced their production capacity and stopped some
production lines as a result of closing the crossings and
preventing the import of raw materials.</p>
<p>“The targeting included factories with various fields of work
with a seemingly deliberate approach to destroying the
economic pillars in the Gaza Strip. These factories continued
to operate despite the losses they had sustained<br>
in three previous military attacks, a tight siege since 2006,”
the Euro-Med Monitor noted.</p>
<p>It also pointed out that the destruction and disruption of
factories led to a record-high increase in the unemployment
rate, surging to over 60% among workers. The number of
unemployed people increased to about 270,000 workers and the
poverty rate among workers increased to more than
80%,according to the Palestinian General Federation of Trade
Unions.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med Monitor also said the Israeli attacks caused a
large number of workers to stop working. In total, the value
of losses in the agricultural sector is estimated at more than
$200 million.</p>
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