Gaza has lost at least 61 percent of its jobs since the start of Israeli aggression on Oct 7, the United Nations labour agency has said.

The besieged enclave’s estimated employment losses are equivalent to 182,000 jobs, the International Labour Organisation said in an assessment of the economic impact of the conflict, Al Jazeera reports.

“Our initial assessment of the repercussions of the tragic current crisis on the Palestinian labour market have yielded extremely worrying results, which will only worsen if the conflict continues,” said Ruba Jaradat, the ILO’s Regional Director for Arab States.

The occupied West Bank has also lost an estimated 24 percent of its employment, the equivalent of 208,000 jobs, due to spillover effects of the war, the ILO said.

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