The war has hurt the West Bank’s economy
Israel Military Deadliest Day During the Gaza War: “It is Good to Die for Our Country,” A Palestinian Schoolmate Abigail Shir
“There is a quote in Israel that says, ‘It is good to die for our country.’ She said that she doesn’t feel like this anymore. “Is it good to die for a country that’s not functioning, that celebrates the hate between us?”
Abigail Shir, 24, was a schoolmate of Levy’s. I still think that Hamas needs to be destroyed. She said she wondered how the war cabinet was doing, if they made good decisions for us.
“I think we are in a war of no choice,” said Rami Sherman. We want to be here for a long time. There are a lot of mistakes and problems, but our only way to survive in the crazy world of the Middle East is to stay united.”
Source: Israel says 24 soldiers were killed on its deadliest single day during the war in Gaza
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Many of the people who attended the funeral were friends or relatives of Levy. Others had no relation but attended the funeral as a show of support for Levy’s family.
“For the last time, I spoke on the phone with you, and you said that you were excited to see me in uniform.” She said she was in uniform as her mother cried.
Ori said in her eulogy that she enlisted in the army just hours before her brother was killed.
Hundreds of people stood in the rain Tuesday at a funeral for Ilay Levy, a captain in the Israeli military, who was killed this week.
There is a shift in sentiment regarding the war in Israel. In Tel Aviv, thousands of people gathered for a protest calling for Netanyahu to step down due to his opposition to the war.
Monday was one of the most difficult days since the war began, Netanyahu said, as the military conducted a thorough inquiry into the incident.
The conflict has killed more than 25,000 Palestinians in Gaza, health officials there say. The toll includes both combatants and civilians, the majority of which are women and children.
Another three Israeli soldiers were killed Monday while fighting in southern Gaza, the military said, bringing the day’s death toll to 24, the highest number of deaths in a single day for Israel during its war with Hamas.
The Israeli military chief of staff shared the pain that the families were going through. We feel the great and painful cost of war, but it’s necessary and justified.
The deadly incident Monday afternoon occurred near the Gaza-Israel border, where a group of Israeli reservists was “removing structures and terrorist infrastructure,” military spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a statement Tuesday.
As a group of soldiers operated inside and around a pair of buildings that had been laid with explosives, militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a nearby tank, Hagari said.
The explosion of the structures was caused by explosives that were about to be used to destroy terror infrastructure in the area, he said. “Simultaneously, there was an explosion that resulted in the collapse of two two-story structures, while most of the force was inside them and nearby.”
Why the West Bank Economy Has Been Hammered by War? An Analysis of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, Israel
Shikaki notes that since the start of the war, Hamas’ popularity in the West Bank has more than tripled — from 12% to 42%, according to his polls. More and more Palestinians feel like they have no diplomatic alternative to violence, as Israeli settlers continue to attack them in the West Bank.
Khalil Shikaki, an academic and pollster who runs the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, is not as concerned about the security forces. He’s concerned that the battered West Bank economy is just one more thing in a brew that is getting out of hand.
“If you are telling people with Kalashnikovs that they will not get money for it, you could be giving them a clue as to what they want to do with their lives,” warns Hulileh. “You are giving your security forces in the West Bank the freedom to choose what they do.”
In addition, Israel and the Palestinian Authority are in a dispute over tax money that Israel collects for the West Bank and Gaza. As a result, the Palestinian Authority, which oversees parts of the West Bank, has had to cut the wages of its 143,000 workers. They didn’t get paid for October, November and December, according to the Palestinian Authority’s deputy minister for the national economy.
Customers owe Said $32,000, which is a large amount of money in the West Bank. The World Bank says the per capita gross domestic product is just $4,500 a year. Across the border in Israel, it is nearly $55,000.
Source: The West Bank economy has been hammered by war
The Gaza Strip’s economic crisis is visible in a video of a woman pulling off a wedding ring, or how she walks through a gold shop
The video of people pulling bodies from the rubble in Gaza is playing on the shop’s TV as a woman took off her wedding ring to help her husband pay his bills.
The war’s economic impact is visible when you walk through the streets of Ramallah. Baha Tamimi, who runs a gold shop in the heart of the city, says 4 out of 5 people who visit now don’t want to buy gold — they want to sell it.
After the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which Israel says killed about 1,200 people, Israel banned some 100,000 Palestinian laborers in the West Bank from crossing the border to work in Israel. The country has security concerns.
“Maybe I get a job once a week to wash stairs, to wash windows — that’s how I survive,” says Qatanani, 41, who has a family back in Gaza. He makes about 40 a day when he can find work.
During his career, Muattaz Qatanani built bomb shelters in Israel, which are used by Israelis as refuge from Hamas rocket attacks.
As many as 24 Israeli soldiers were killed on the first day of the ongoing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the military said. The death toll is the highest in a single day for Israel during its war with Hamas, it added. At least 1,323 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Gaza conflict, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.