The World Bank said in a report that the economic perspectives for the country are bleak. Restrictions imposed by Israel makes the Palestinian economy operate below its potential.
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The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a note on Friday (21) evening expressing hope with the ceasefire between Israel and Palestine. Brazilian Chancellor Carlos França met with Arab diplomats.
In a press release, the institutional development center for the relations between Arabs and Brazilians calls for efforts from the international community to end the hostilities in the region, where Palestinians and Israelis fight, and says that stability will only be achieved when the rights of the Palestinian people are recognized.
‘And this film was just the start,’ said the director of ‘Gaza,’ the documentary film which opened the 2020 Arab World Film Festival at Home. Garry Keane was featured in the event’s final live stream this Friday (11), alongside journalist Diogo Bercito and professor Arlene Clemesha.
Works from the exhibition ‘Refugee Childhood’ may become a book. The author started an online crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the publication.
According to a report by the UN agency, the occupation drove the rate to 27%. The lifting of the trade restrictions alone could make the local economy grow 10%.
A ceremony in Brasília remembered the 70th anniversary of the day in which over 700,000 Palestinians were banished or fled their lands with the establishment of the state of Israel.
