# Gaza receives Eid al-Fitr in the most difficult economic and living conditions

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Gaza receives Eid al-Fitr in the most difficult economic and living conditions

• 49.1% of the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip during the first quarter of 2018.

• 255 thousand people were unemployed during the first quarter of 2018.

• 64% unemployment among graduates aged 20-29 years.

• 53% poverty rates in the Gaza Strip.

• 33% of extreme poverty in the Gaza Strip.

• 72% of household food insecurity in the Gaza Strip.

• 95% of drinking water is invalid.

• The lack of purchasing power and the decline in imports by more than 15% during the first quarter of 2018.

• More than one million people receive assistance from UNRWA and international and Arab relief organizations operating in the Gaza Strip.

• A 50% drop in the number of trucks entering the Strip, from 750 truckloads per day to 350 trucks a day.

• A 50% drop in sales volume.

• $ 26 million volume of checks during the first quarter of 2018

• The economic sector is completely absent from the reconstruction process and the compensation rate does not exceed 16.5% of the total damage of the economic sector.

• 4 hours a day is the rate of electricity in the Gaza Strip.

• The massacre of salaries continues without the slightest responsibility.