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ILO Bulletin No. 4 \u2013 Impact of the war in Gaza on the labour market and livelihoods in the OPT<\/a><\/p>\n Eight months into the war in Gaza, families have been forced to adapt to what humanitarians often call \u201cnegative coping strategies\u201d to survive, as unemployment reaches a staggering 80 per cent.<\/p>\n For many in the Gaza Strip, this has meant sending their children out to work, despite the dangers, the UN labour agency,\u00a0ILO<\/a><\/em>, has warned.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n With more, here\u2019s\u00a0ILO economist Aya Jaafar, speaking from the Regional Office for Arab States in Beirut, with UN News\u2019s Nancy Sarkis in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 11 June 2024 ILO Bulletin No. 4 \u2013 Impact of the war in Gaza on the labour market and livelihoods in the OPT Listen to the full Interview of Aya Jaafar Eight months into the war in Gaza, families have been forced to adapt to what humanitarians often call \u201cnegative coping strategies\u201d to survive, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2957,2545],"document-source":[2629,6852,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1769,2033,1937,2005,1741,2349,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-298241","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-interview","document-category-un-news-item","document-source-international-labour-office-ilo","document-source-un-news","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-children","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298247,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298241\/revisions\/298247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=298241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Listen to the full Interview of Aya Jaafar<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n