Palestinian economy losses US $ 6 million every day
Palestine, Economics, 11/14/2000

The director general of the Arab labor organization Ibrahim Qweider has stressed that the Palestinian economy losses daily US $ 6 million since the beginning of the Intifada (Uprising) on September 28.

Qweider told journalists on the sideline of the meetings of the Arab ministers of labor which was held in Cairo on Saturday that " Israel, by imposing a siege on the Palestinian people prevented 120,000 Palestinian workers from heading to their work places. A matter which resulted in losses in the palestinian economy, estimated at US $ 6 million per day."

The Arab labor organization called at the opening of its meeting which will last for three days at the headquarters of the Arab league dispatching an investigation committee from the International Labor Organization ILO to the Palestinian occupied territories to estimate the losses inflicted on the Palestinian economy, Qweider explained.

Meantime, the Arab vocational trade unions and laborers called for donating a one day salary for the sake of the Palestinians.

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