UNRWA:Unemployment in Gaza hits 45.2%
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-11-02 20:14:07 -0700 | business-news
"If the aim of the blockade policy was to weaken the Hamas administration, the public employment numbers suggest this has failed," a UNRWA spokesman said Tuesday as the UN marks Gaza's fifth year under intense Israeli siege. Commenting on a...
Haniyeh Gaza Reconstruction kicked off
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-27 19:36:59 -0700 | business-news
Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that his administration would continue to work in the service of Palestinians until the appointment of a transitional government.Speaking at the opening of a new health center in Gaza City, Haniyeh said his government...
Report: 13-fold increase in Hamas budget since 2005
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-11-02 20:00:07 -0700 | business-news
The budget of the Hamas movement is 13 times bigger since Israeli forces unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.The Hebrew-language daily reported Friday that the Islamist party's annual budget has grown from...
Israel to Allow More Gaza Exports
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-11-02 19:55:35 -0700 | business-news
Israel has opened registration for manufacturers in Gaza to export goods to Europe, officials said Thursday. Registration is open for clothing and furniture merchants prepared to export, an official from the goods coordination committee said.Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza...
Israel allows first cherry tomato export from Gaza
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-27 20:07:16 -0700 | business-news
Cherry tomatoes grown by farmers in Gaza can now compete with settlement produce on European supermarket shelves.The Gaza Strip has exported cherry tomatoes since the 1980s, said Jamal Abu An-Naja, who manages the export of vegetables and flowers from southern...
Gaza reconstruction will begin soon
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-28 02:32:32 -0700 | business-news
Hamas premier Ismail Haneyya has said today that his government will launch within 48 hours a project to build all the homes that were destroyed during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, affirming there are sufficient reconstruction funds. Haneyya added...
First limited export from Gaza allowed, flowers and strawberries.
Posted by: northsunm32
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-26 08:12:55 -0700 | business-news
One reason that Gaza remains a crippled economy dependent upon foreign help is that Israel has not allowed Gaza to export. Now the first limited export has been allowed a total of two trucks with flowers and strawberries headed for...
Good News and Bad News
Posted by: Aun Muhammad
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-01-29 07:11:56 -0800 | business-news
Tired of hearing bad news from the Palestinian territories? If so consider this: in the first quarter of 2010 the economy of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip grew at an astonishing 11.5% compared to the same quarter...
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