Some 5 billion dollars loss of the Palestinians
Palestine, Economics, 6/24/2001

The Palestinian authority estimated total losses of the Palestinians in various economic areas at more five billion USD.

The Palestinian minister of finance Muhammad Zuhdi al-Nashashibi announced that total value of the losses inflicted on the Palestinian economy as a result of the total siege and the Israeli aggression on Palestine since the eruption of the Intifada until the mid of the current month June at $ 5.2 billion.

Al-Nashashibi indicated that the value of losses inflicted as a result of the suspension of various production sectors reached $ 3570 million, of which $ 426 million as losses in the sector of exports and relay industry, electricity and the water and $ 411 million losses in the sector of constructions.

Al-Nashashibi continued that losses of the sector of agriculture reached $ 234 million; $ 211 million in the sector of trade, $ 107 million in the sector of transport, $ 382 in the sector of services while tourism and other related sectors had losses of $ 551 million.

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