As a whole, the Palestinian State is at risk of losing up to 16 years of progress in terms of human development, according to the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).
A third month of the current Israel-Hamas conflict would scale up poverty by nearly 45%, and would drag 660,000 other inhabitants into this harsh situation. Meanwhile, Palestine´s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would drop as low as 12.2%, and total losses would jump to USD$2.5 billion.
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