All language subtitles for 一口气了解巴勒斯坦经济

is no exaggeration to say that the Palestinian economy has been deformed by Israeli restrictions

in the past two decades. Bombing the

separation wall, digging

tunnels, seizing land, depriving food and electricity, and open

-air prisons.

It is hard to imagine that all

these

words that have nothing to do with most people's lives have

appeared. What is the life of Palestinians in

Palestine in the 21st century?

What is Israel doing to them? Let’s

stop talking

nonsense and take a look at the

Palestinian economy.

In fact, Palestine’s status in the world

is very special until now. The

United Nations passed it in 2012. A resolution

upgraded Palestine to a non-member observer state.

What does it mean? It

means that you can participate in the

international affairs of the United Nations.

You can speak but do not have the right to vote.

Now, except for Palestine,

the only one in the world who has this form is the Holy See. In

2019, 138 of the

193 member states of the United Nations,

including China, India, and Russia,

recognized Palestine as a country. However,

countries including the United States, France, Japan, and South Korea have

not yet recognized it. This is precisely

because there are

still differences in the definition of Palestine in the international community.

The World Bank and IMF

will call him WBG,

which is the abbreviation of West Bank and Gaza

instead of directly calling it Palestine.

So next time you see WBG wherever you see it,

you will know that

it refers to Palestine

and not my cousin.

So you see As you can tell from the name,

Palestine is divided into the

West Bank and Gaza, right? Let

me tell you that the

economic patterns of these two areas

are completely different,

including the Israeli military's

control over them.

Let me give you the simplest example.

According to World Bank estimates, the

per capita GDP of the West Bank in 2022

is 4,458 US dollars, and the per capita

GDP of Gaza is 1,257 US dollars.

That is to say, the per capita GDP of the West Bank

is 3.5 times that of Gaza,

while the per capita GDP of Israel, which is separated from Palestine by a wall,

is 54,660 US dollars. The U.S. dollar

is 12 times that of the West Bank and

43 times that of Gaza. Why do

you think that the per capita GDP of

Israel and Palestine, which are next to each other,

can differ dozens of times,

but

how can the difference between the West Bank and Gaza in Palestine be three to four times? The

Palestinian economy is

because It is indeed greatly affected by the war.

Let’s briefly summarize the

history of Palestine’s

politics, including some of the background of the war. You are

familiar with this area, and you

can skip it directly.

From the 16th century until the end of World War I, the

Palestinian area

belonged to the Ottomans.

After World War I, part of the empire was administered by the British. After World War II, the

United Nations proposed Resolution 181 in 1947, recommending the

establishment of a Jewish state

and an Arab state here,

namely Israel and Palestine. On

May 15, 1948, the

British ended their The

Mandatory

Jews in Palestine immediately announced the establishment of Israel,

which aroused

strong dissatisfaction from Arab countries. They united to

attack Israel and

launched the first Middle East War.

By the end of the war in 1949,

the two sides signed an armistice agreement to delineate the relationship between

Israel

and Arab countries. As a

result, Israel controlled

more land than in the 181 Agreement. The

remaining two larger areas, the West

Bank, were

administered by Jordan

and the Gaza Strip was administered by Egypt.

During this period,

Palestine completely disappeared from the map.

So it is also called the disappearing era.

In fact, at the beginning, Jordan

really wanted to integrate the

Palestinians in the West Bank

into Jordanian society,

so they even issued them

citizenship.

However, because the Palestinians had a

strong sense of national identity, they

were ruled. It was

against

this background that the

Palestine Liberation Organization was established in 1964 and was

called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

It was quite special in nature

and could not be regarded as a government

but a mixed political and military organization. There are

various Palestinian organizations

such as Fatah, Hamas, the

Palestinian government, etc.

But until now, the

internationally recognized

official representative of the Palestinian people

is still the PLO. The Arafat

we often hear in the news

is the PLO. In

1967,

Israel and the surrounding Arab countries

started the third Middle East War.

Within six days starting on June 5, the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian

coalition forces were

quickly defeated by Israel. Israel

not only captured the

West Bank and Gaza Strip,

but also occupied After Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

and Syria's Golan Heights,

Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. The

Golan Heights has always been a disputed area.

We won't mention it.

Let's focus on Palestine. The West

Bank and the Gaza Strip are

also separate areas in Israel. He did not want to

immediately assimilate the Palestinians,

which is unrealistic,

but he implemented

very strict military controls on land, sea, and air,

and of course economic controls.

Under this strict control, the

conflict between the two sides began to intensify.

Starting in 1987,

Palestinian people began to

march through Throwing rocks, strikes, and

making Molotov cocktails

to confront the Israeli government.

This series of

resistance events lasted for several years and

was called the First Palestinian Intifada. A

total of

about 2,000

Palestinians and 160 Israelis were killed at the

beginning of the uprising. The next year

was 1988, when the Palestine Liberation

Organization announced the establishment of the Palestinian state.

Also in 1988,

a Palestinian charity organization

called the Islamic Center

changed its name to the Islamic Resistance Movement,

Hamas for short.

Its concept was relatively radical,

which was to eliminate the

establishment of Israel. A unified Palestinian state,

but its power was still relatively small at that time, let's put it

aside for the time being. On

August 20, 1993, under the mediation of the

United States,

Chairman Arafat

and Israeli Prime Minister Rabin

reached a meeting in Oslo, Norway. After

reaching some consensus, the

historic peace treaty

"Oslo Accords" was signed at the White House in the United States. The

two sides recognized each other's political status

and also signed a series of

treaties to ease the antagonistic relationship.

However, the good times did not last long.

Two years later,

Israeli Prime Minister Rabin was

assassinated. The last series of terrorist attacks caused the

"Oslo Accords" to be

postponed indefinitely,

which in turn intensified the

hostility between the two sides. In

2000,

the second Palestinian uprising broke out.

This time it was more intense than the first. The

increasingly frequent suicide attacks, which killed about 5,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis,

have led Israel to implement

stricter military control over Palestine

and to

build protective nets and

even a perimeter around the Gaza border and the West Bank. The high fence

also blew up

Gaza's airport and the port under construction. After

Arafat's death in 2004, the two

major factions in the Palestinian political arena

began to have differences.

One is the largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization, the

Palestinian National Liberation Movement,

referred to as "French". "Tah"

The other is

the Islamic resistance movement we just mentioned,

abbreviated as "Hamas".

This "Hamas" is not relatively radical.

As the

national

antagonism between Palestine and Israel became increasingly strong,

its influence began to expand rapidly in

2006.

"Hamas" won a majority of seats in the congressional election and

became the majority party in the Palestinian Congress.

"Fatah" and "Hamas"

had a small-scale civil war between the two organizations, which

eventually led to the

split of Palestine into two The West

Bank is controlled by "Fatah"

and the Gaza Strip is

controlled by "Hamas".

Although the

two sides have made many attempts at negotiation since then, the

general pattern of this split has

basically continued to this day.

Well,

then.

Let’s talk about the Palestinian economy

and the living conditions of the Palestinians. As we

mentioned at the beginning, the

West Bank controlled by Fatah

and the Gaza controlled by Hamas are

both in Palestine. They

are completely different

and actually quite interesting,

so I think

it is necessary to talk about them separately.

First, let’s take a look at the

West Bank. The West Bank

has an economy that is completely different from other places in the world.

In fact, when I talked about this model, I have

been avoiding mentioning

it. Settlement.

You can even understand it as the

core of the West Bank economy.

What does settlement mean?

Simply put, it

is the settlements established by Israel in the Palestinian area.

In fact, the Jewish community started after the Six-Day War in 1967, when

Israel occupied the West

Bank and Gaza.

They started to build communities in these areas where

there were no Arabs,

and then let Jews come in to live in them.

So this is actually what Israel

wants. One way to occupy Palestine

is that the

number of Jews living in settlements

was still very small in the first dozen years.

By 1984, there were

about 100,000 Jews

living in settlements.

But since the late 1980s, When Israel began to

expand rapidly, it

began to

build roads

and supporting facilities among them. The

network of settlements slowly began to cover the

entire West Bank.

Now there are more than 250

Jewish settlements

in total, with more than 700,000 Jews living in them.

This is not a small number.

You must know that there are only 2.75 million

Palestinians in the West Bank, with more than

700,000 Jews in the middle.

Note that both the International Court of Justice, the

United Nations and the international community

consider these Israeli settlements

to be illegal. It's

just that they have

nothing to do with Israel,

not just the West Bank.

Historically,

every time Israel occupied an area, it

would try to build settlements there.

However, now the West Bank is the largest.

In fact, the Palestinians first

saw this approach of Israel. They

must have been very angry,

so

conflicts continued between the Arab and Jewish residents. It was not until the two sides

signed the

"Oslo Accords II" in the 1990s that Leah

finally found

a more compromise plan, and

they agreed to divide the West Bank into

three ABCs. Area

A

is the area where Arabs mainly live. It is

autonomous by the Palestinian government and Israel is

not allowed to interfere.

This part

only accounts for 18% of the West Bank. Area

B is also managed by the Palestinian government,

but the Israeli military

can jointly manage

this part, which accounts for about 22%. Area

C, which

is the remaining 60% of the land,

is completely controlled by Israel.

The Jewish settlements we just mentioned are

all built in Area C. In this way,

although

Palestine has obtained autonomy in Area A,

it is equivalent to

being cut off. It has become 165 enclaves,

isolated like islands,

and the roads connecting them are

all managed by the Israeli army.

So sometimes when

you look at the Palestinian areas divided on the map,

you will think that

the entire West Bank

is actually The area managed by the Palestinian government,

but in fact

it has a certain degree of autonomy,

is actually like this. In

many places in the West Bank, you

will actually see two parallel roads,

and there is a high wall in the middle to separate

one side for Jews and foreigners

to pass. The

license plates are usually yellow.

If you take this road, you

can usually drive through the West Bank without any obstruction. The cars on the

other side are for Palestinians. They

usually have white license plates.

Israel will set up

a large number of checkpoints here, and

you will often be questioned.

To check your ID,

you must have sufficient reasons

to obtain a permit,

such as a work

or medical permit, etc.

Therefore, Palestinians and Jews

themselves have to use

APPs specially designed for them

to navigate. The

connectivity difference between the two sides

is very big.

For example, if some Palestinians

want to go to the Jewish area to work during the day,

they have to go through checkpoints surrounded by

high iron fences and

undergo strict scrutiny one by one.

Therefore, many Palestinians People

may get up at three or four in the morning and queue

at this checkpoint for

two or three hours every

day. To put it

simply,

even within the West Bank, the

movement of Palestinians

is strictly controlled by Israel. The

entire West Bank is divided into

Jews and Palestinians. Two Worlds of Man.

And do you know what the

settlements in Israel look like? Let me

tell you, I

was really surprised when I first saw it. It

is not what you think of being

temporarily

in a particularly oppressive land.

Instead, the Israeli government has spent huge sums of money,

including donations from some international Jews, to

build more than 200

illegal high-end communities here.

Most of them are

very modern small bungalows

and are equipped with entertainment, supermarkets, universities,

and There are about

1,000

industrial plants in 16 industrial zones, etc. The

entire business environment is very complete.

If you look at this area alone,

you will feel that life is very comfortable.

Its housing prices, including the cost of living, are

much lower than in Israel. The

population density is also

This also explains

why

700,000 Jews have

flocked to these settlements over the years

to face the Palestinians across the wall. Some of

these people

do believe that this place is our ancestors because of

historical, religious, political and other reasons.

I should take it back,

but according to Israeli surveys, the

primary reason why most Jews moved to this settlement

is actually to

simply improve the quality of life. Just

look at this picture, right? It’s really difficult to live in

such a peaceful and peaceful community.

Imagine

that this is the core of the current world conflict.

However, the

areas of Palestinian cities that are only separated from Israel by a mountain, that

is, Area A and Area B, are

completely different.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that

you want to cover

a piece of land. If it is cut into hundreds of enclaves

and there

are all these large and small checkpoints

and restrictions on movement,

how can the economy be good?

First of all, the most direct consequence of these controls

is that all of Palestine's

very critical economic resources are

in the hands of Israel. Do

you think C The area occupies 60% of the area. It

covers most of the fertile land.

For example, the

Jordan Valley in the west of the West Bank,

which is a very important agricultural area, is

all controlled by Israel. As a result,

Palestinian agriculture is

actually very hindered.

In addition, Israel

also controls Most of the water resources

mean that the Palestinians, who account for 80% of the West Bank population, are

only allocated

17% of fresh water resources. The

Jews in the Israeli settlements have an

average water resource that

is 20 times that of the Palestinians.

In the long run, the impact

on the Palestinian economy is

greater. What is bigger and more far-reaching

is actually its permit system.

To put it bluntly, you need to

go to Israel to apply for a permit to do anything.

Except for the

Palestinians we just mentioned who need permits to

travel between cities and villages.

You need permits to expand your house.

Permits are required for planting trees,

import certificates,

and even birth

registration, telephone, driver's license, etc.,

all require Israeli permits.

Palestinian residents have become accustomed to

this ubiquitous

system of requiring Israeli permits

, and it is nothing to apply for this permit.

The automated program

says that I just need to scan my face.

Behind this is a very large

and redundant

broker system and bureaucratic system,

which seriously hinders the efficiency of the economy.

When we talked about India before,

didn’t they have various

However, compared to Palestine,

it is really nothing compared to the permit. In short,

both the movement of people,

natural resources and civil activities in the West Bank are

subject to

very strict restrictions by Israel.

If you are a little suspicious or special,

you may get a

permit. If you can't get it,

you can only

stay in your own village.

This actually makes it

difficult for the West Bank to develop industries that

require a large number of people to collaborate

or a large amount of resources to collaborate.

It can only mainly be agriculture.

It officially employs only

13.4% of the population,

but it is actually estimated that

90% of Palestinians in the West Bank

are engaged in agricultural-related jobs.

Let’s not talk about various human rights issues for the moment,

but the

core of the economy is the exchange of

resources, right? The good thing about labor exchange

is that

Israel in the West Bank blocks all exchanges,

which leads to

very slow economic development. The

per capita GDP

is only one-tenth of Israel's. Didn't

we just say that Palestine in Area A

is basically autonomous, right?

How can it be autonomous? To what

extent can it be autonomous?

In fact, the Oslo Accords

gave the Palestinian government

a lot of freedom.

First of all, this government

was only established after the agreement was signed.

Although the territory it can manage is limited, it is

only A. District and District B,

but in these two areas,

he can actually have

most of the rights that a government can have.

For example, he can elect internally,

he can have his own president,

and now Abbas

can also have his own laws.

For example, he can It stipulates that

if Palestinians sell their houses to

Israeli Jews, they

can be punished with the death penalty.

They can also

issue passports to Palestinians, etc.

What can they not do? The

most important thing related to the economy is that they cannot print money and

you have to use Israel.

Secondly, there are many taxes that the

Palestinian government cannot collect.

As long as they are taxes related to Israel,

for example, the

tariffs on trade between it and Israel and the value-added tax on the

products it sells in Israel are

all collected by the Israeli government.

Then a 3% fee is deducted every month and

returned to the Palestinian government.

This part of the transferred fee

accounts for more than

two-thirds of the Palestinian government’s total revenue.

That is to say, more than

two-thirds of the Palestinian government’s revenue

comes from Israel.

It's very troublesome if the government collects it on behalf of you, right?

Even though in theory you

say I collect it myself and

others collect it,

but how much of the tax have you actually collected and

when should it be transferred to the

Israeli government? The Israeli government can

find all kinds of reasons to default on it. In

fact, he does this kind of thing a lot.

In other words, the fate of the Palestinian government

is in the hands of Israel.

What’s even more troublesome is that the

Palestinian government

still has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on

security work.

It’s such a thankless task. There

are at least

over 50,000 security personnel in the West Bank,

and a lot of their energy is spent on

suppressing

various activities of Palestinians resisting Israel. They

even need to cooperate with Israel

to arrest some

rebels. Jewish or anti-Israel

people have also made many Palestinians

very dissatisfied with the Fatah government.

They feel that these security personnel

are an extension of Israeli control.

In short, if you look at

the Fatah government in Palestine, it is

not economical or

tax-intensive. If it cannot be collected,

most of the lives

will still be controlled by Israel. In

addition, a large amount of security expenses

will be very tight.

Therefore, in this environment,

both the Palestinian government

and the Palestinians are

actually very dependent on international aid for

specific revenue collection.

The data I checked on how much aid is slightly different,

but roughly speaking, the

West Bank receives between

1 billion and 3 billion U.S. dollars every year. The

main sources are the United States and the European Union.

But to make matters worse, in

the past few years, many countries have discovered that the

Palestinian government Corruption is

also particularly serious. In the end,

most of the international aid

has no way of reaching the

Palestinians. It

all goes into the

pockets of the Palestinian government and even Israeli government officials.

Therefore, in the past two years,

international aid to Palestine

has begun to decline significantly,

which has led to the Palestinian government.

Its annual deficit is more than one billion U.S. dollars, and it

often cannot pay salaries to government employees. Well,

we just basically talked about the

general economic situation in the West Bank.

Basically,

Israel is centered on settlements, which

can be said to be

comprehensive restrictions.

This is certainly true,

but in fact, most

Palestinians living in the West Bank

are not as dire straits

as we usually see in the news.

At least I

had a bit of a stereotype before,

because

I was actually checking the economic situation of a country. In

addition to various data and information,

I also like to watch vlogs of local people.

Although it does have

a lot of individual one-sidedness,

I think it is at least a way for

you to

truly feel the life of local people.

I saw the West Bank. From

some images of Palestinians,

you can indeed see that it is not very developed

and has the various restrictions we just mentioned.

But for most

Palestinians living in Area A, I

think it is quite normal.

You can even say it is Love. and Peace doesn’t

feel so different from some ordinary small and medium-sized cities.

Of course, if anyone has actually lived there

or visited there, you

can

tell us what it is like in the comment area.

In fact, I found some research data that

more or less confirms it. At this point, the

unemployment rate in the West Bank is about 17%.

Although it is definitely not low,

it should still be

within an economically reasonable range. From what

I found, there are actually some bright spots in

its agriculture, industry, and tourism.

It is actually quite good. What’s amazing is that the

West Bank

actually has its own bank. Palestinians

borrow money at higher interest rates than Israelis. It

even has its own stock exchange, which

has 48 stocks with a

total market value of more than 3 billion U.S. dollars. In fact,

Palestine’s per capita GDP is

In the five or six years after 2007, it

experienced a period of rapid growth.

Although it is definitely still very backward compared to Israel,

although it has been subject to

various controls and barriers, the

economy is still developing to a certain extent,

but

we are about to The Gaza Strip mentioned

is completely different. The

Gaza Strip is a narrow strip of land

about 40 kilometers long and 12 kilometers wide in the southwest of Israel. It

borders Egypt to the south.

It has only 365 square kilometers of land, which

is about 1 of the West Bank. /15

However, it is home to more than 2.3 million people, making it one of the

most densely populated areas in the world.

More than 60% of these two million people

are actually Arabs who fled from Israel to Gaza

due to various wars in the past half century.

In fact, the early

Israeli management of the Gaza Strip was

somewhat similar to the Jordan River today,

with settlement permits,

military management, etc.

However, as the radical Hamas became more and more powerful

in the Gaza Strip,

violent conflicts became more and more frequent, and the

Israeli government In 2005, all 21 settlements in the

Gaza Strip were dismantled

and all

8,500 Jews living there were

evacuated. In

2006,

Hamas won the Palestinian elections

and seized control of Gaza in the 2007 civil war.

Hamas is too radical and

wants to eliminate Israel.

Therefore, after they came to power, the

United States and the European Union, the largest donors to Palestine, completely cut off

economic aid to the Hamas government.

Israel also began to

implement an unprecedented

comprehensive blockade of land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip.

They built high fences and

strengthened vigorous military patrols.

Even if you look at the fence on the West Bank,

it still has some loopholes and

is not that tight.

But the fence in Gaza can be said to

be strict. The strict and comprehensive blockade has

left only one pass connecting Israel in the north

and one connecting Egypt in the south. It can be said that it is extremely difficult for

Palestinians to enter and exit the Gaza Strip.

Only a few of

them have obtained medical permits

or other special permits. Talents

can come out.

In fact, it turns out that before 2005,

there were more than 100,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who

went to work in Israel. The

economic exchanges between the two sides were still quite acceptable. After the

complete blockade, the

unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip

soared to more than 50%.

Israel's pressure on Gaza and

All material exchanges with the outside world are

strictly controlled,

including energy, food, water,

medical equipment, etc.

Most of the electricity in Gaza

is originally controlled by Israel.

It only has a small number of its own power plants

and still relies on

fossil energy provided by Israel.

Such a serious shortage of electricity

has led to power outages in Gaza

for more than eleven hours every day.

There is a shortage of gasoline inside,

and many people even use cooking oil

as gasoline to burn.

Even food in Israel

must be strictly controlled

according to the Israeli Defense Forces. According to

a document leaked by the ministry,

between 2007 and 2010,

they would calculate how

many people in Gaza needed and how many calories they needed,

and then strictly limit the supply of

only the most basic food to these people in Gaza.

A former Israeli government official said that

we wanted to The Palestinians

control their diet

instead of starving them to death. Fishing

in the Gaza Strip

was originally a small pillar industry,

but after the blockade,

Israel only allowed Gazans to fish

within a range of three to six nautical miles.

You need to know before

Oslo The agreement

talks about twenty nautical miles.

Israel will even use drones to drop some harmful herbicides

in some agricultural areas of the Gaza Strip

to limit the growth of crops.

So you can see that

due to these long-term blockades,

the resources in the Gaza Strip were severely lacking in

2000. At that time, there were

only about 70,000 people

receiving in-kind assistance from the United Nations. By

2022,

this number has risen to 1.1 million.

In other words, half of the people in Gaza

rely on in-kind assistance from the United Nations. There

is no way to survive in Gaza.

With a

complete wastewater treatment system,

78% of the water resources are polluted. A

quarter of the diseases among residents

are

caused by microorganisms and viruses in the water.

So if you look at Gaza, it is not like the West Bank.

It is completely fine inside. Hamas, which has free circulation, is

completely autonomous,

but the most basic supplies such as food, water,

electricity, energy and medical care are

seriously insufficient, so there

is no way

to form a decent industry. When

you see its unemployment rate of 50%, it

seems that there is still half or

at least half. People have jobs, right?

But the actual situation is

far worse than this number.

What is the definition of unemployment rate?

It refers to the proportion of people of working age who

want to find

but can’t find it. In

Gaza, the unemployment rate is so

high that there are many people. He doesn’t want to look for a job at all,

so these people

are not included in that base.

For example, women

basically don’t look for work at all. In the

entire Gaza area of

2.3 million people, there are

only about 200,000 working people,

which means no. To one-tenth of the population,

40% of them

are actually government officials. The

remaining very pitiful

people in their early 100s

are basically concentrated in some very basic

agriculture, fishery and a very small number of manufacturing industries. The

more troublesome What is

more, the scarcity of resources makes it

easier for corruption to breed.

Similar to the Palestinian government in the West Bank, the

Hamas government is

also very corrupt.

It

controls a lot of resources internally,

so the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

It’s really difficult for

you to see. After understanding these basic conditions,

I feel that the

economic data of Gaza Strip that we cite are

actually of little significance.

Let’s look at the population structure of Gaza.

The first time I saw it, it

was really It can be said that it is very shocking.

When we talked about the Israeli economy last time,

we saw that

it was basically an isosceles triangle. The

newborns were very prosperous.

And the Gaza area looks like

this. It cannot be described as prosperous. It is

basically full of young people.

Half of them are under the age of nineteen, so

why are there so many children? I

think on the one hand,

in this economic environment, the

marginal cost of having more children is

not

high. There is a difference between having three children and five. It’s

not that big,

and

you can see that 95% of women in Gaza

are not working,

mainly taking care of their children at home.

Of course, this economic reason is only one aspect of

why they have so many children.

Another key reason

is that Palestinians regard

giving birth as a

It is a kind of resistance to Israel.

So we can see that the

Gaza Strip

has no economy at all.

At the same time, there continue to be a large number of newborns, so

they are very dependent on external supplies.

There

are official and unofficial

official ones.

In fact, Mainly from the United Nations,

more than one billion U.S. dollars of material supplies are

delivered to the Gaza region every year.

In fact, as we just said,

half of the people

live by these materials.

We will not go into details.

The key is this unofficial channel.

If you think that the entire border of the Gaza Strip is

heavily guarded by Israel,

one way the Palestinians have thought of

is to dig tunnels. Ever

since Gaza was blocked,

the Palestinians have continued to

dig various new tunnels

to connect Israel and Egypt in the south.

These tunnels have been built. It is very strong,

about 20 to 30 meters

deep, and may reach 800 meters in length.

Around 2010,

tunnels between Gaza and Egypt were

very popular. There were

more than a thousand of them, large and small,

and anything could be smuggled here.

Fuel, cement, seeds, animals,

food, medicine, clothing, etc.,

of course, including weapons and personnel,

all entered the Gaza area through these tunnels.

At that time, the economy of Gaza

was actually developing well

and even surpassed that of the West Bank.

But in 2013,

Egypt After the coup,

they sent troops

to flood

more than 1,600 such tunnels,

basically blocking

most of the routes between Gaza and Egypt.

The situation quickly worsened,

but even so,

to this day

these tunnels are still used by Hamas

to escape. Israel's restrictions are the

basic way to connect with the outside world. The

large amount of military supplies smuggled by Hamas,

mainly rockets,

actually come through tunnels.

As we just said, Gaza

has been blocked like this.

This is all economic. The

military conflict between the two sides

is the most devastating to the Gaza region.

Not counting the conflicts between the two sides since 2007, the number of

Palestinian deaths exceeded 6,400, and the number of Israeli deaths

exceeded 300 in

October this year. This conflict

has exceeded all the casualties in the past sixteen years combined,

and Gaza is particularly short of

steel and cement to rebuild those bombed-out buildings.

Many places were bombed into rubble

and could only be left there.

This is what Gaza

is called. It is the

largest open-air prison in the world.

Half of the people living here are children.

They

have lived in this isolated

hell

from the first day they were born. From the first day they were born, they

may take it for granted that

everyone There should be a blackout for half the day,

school graduation, he should not be able to find a job, he

should get sick once a month, and

missiles should be flying all over the sky.

Even these

I don’t think are the worst.

The worst thing

is that the economy continues to grow at a rapid pace.

If you go backwards, you will only be worse off tomorrow than you are today. The

worst thing is that

they cannot see the hope for good.

We have used two videos to talk about the

economies of Israel and Palestine.

Although there is only a wall between the two sides, the

living conditions of the residents

can be said to be worlds apart. It

is definitely a bit sensitive when it comes to such a controversial topic,

so I will hear

all kinds of different voices.

But what I want to tell you is that

my original intention of making these two videos

is actually to help you

as much as possible. Learn more about the

economies of Palestine and Israel,

so the angle I chose is also some factors that

I personally think have a

greater impact on the economies of the two countries,

rather than talking

from the perspective of military war or politics.

Of course,

if you have any ideas or additions, you

are welcome. Feel free to express yourself in the comment area,

then that’s it for now