In presenting the 2025 annual report, the union’s secretary general, Shaher Saad, explained that this figure represents 38 percent of the 1.4 million employed in Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

He emphasized the sharp and unprecedented deterioration of the conditions of Palestinian workers in the face of the neighboring country’s aggression and repressive policies.

In this regard, he noted that their losses during the more than two years of war in Gaza were estimated at around nine billion dollars, a significant portion due to Israel’s refusal to accept workers from that territory and the West Bank.

The union recorded more than 35,000 arrests from the start of the conflict in October 2023 until the end of 2025.

It also denounced the increase in the number of barriers in the West Bank, which exacerbated people’s suffering, restricted their daily movement, and hindered their access to their workplaces.

Recently, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) revealed that Palestine’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by 29 percent as a result of the Israeli aggression.

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