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Eight months into the war in Gaza, families have been forced to adapt to what humanitarians often call “negative coping strategies” to survive, as unemployment reaches a staggering 80 per cent.
For many in the Gaza Strip, this has meant sending their children out to work, despite the dangers, the UN labour agency, ILO, has warned.
Details of this worrying development the wider devastating economic impact of the conflict in Gaza and the West Bank are outlined in a new report from the agency.
With more, here’s ILO economist Aya Jaafar, speaking from the Regional Office for Arab States in Beirut, with UN News’s Nancy Sarkis in Geneva.
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