One, we will be taking a look at that, then israels seran has called uh at the oic meeting, call for sanctioning israel, that points somewat to a bds, boycott direstment and sanction in terms of a reboot, and is there an international will to boycot israel . As the crisis continues across the occupied palestinian territories, there are concerns for further economic crisis in the occupied west bank, since the Israeli Military occupied the west bank, it has deployed a matrix of policies and practices that seas control the people of the occupied palestinian territory. Israel policies and practices have fragmented the royal and economic landscape of the west bank. This tactics have revoted the productive capacity. The occupied palestinian territory, depriving it from its growth potential. The occupied palestinian territories continue to be chronically dependent on done funding for its fiscal survival. The Palestinian Economy remains extremely fragile, structurally weak and highly dependent on israel for trade, wage employments and the provision of basic infrastructure. Trends defect then economy that already losses viab and fiscal sustainability. This regime controls the borders, airspace, population registry and Economic Activity of the palestinian territories, Israeli Military orders, assigns, quotas and a permit system which rests a palestinian access to and the development of Water Resources. Given the continued and ever evolving restrictive contact, palestinian policy makers are left with limited choices as the ways in which to slow down the ongoing deterioration of socioeconomic conditions. Weved in the Jordan Valley in the humsah area for decades. Livestock is our livelihood. Before the of announcement of the deal, the occupation to demolish homes, cut off the water, burn land, the Occupation Army used to chase us. We suffer a lot from the occupation, especially during their military training. Time now to take a look at some of the online posts. We try to bring in all sides of the story into this, namely israels economy. On occupied land and then the Palestinian Economy in the occupied territories and of course the economy of ga. All right, first up uh we saw this particular a number of uh including twitter x now israely political crisis could cut 2. 8 year from gdp based a warning by the central bank. Looking deeper into it into a website it said that exports, consumption and investment could be his if there over judicial are not resolved, added the judicial changes would have. Risk premium, exports, consumption and investment, and then finally the hit to gdp would be anywhere between 0. 8 and 2. 8 per year on average for the next three years, ouch, thats got to her, next, palestine, what challenges does the Palestinian Economy face, this entry said given the decline in aid which fell 27 of gdp in 2008 to 1. 8 in 2021. The Palestinian Authority has accumulated a large rear to the sector, pension fund and domestic. Borrowing uh underlining that part about how aid is 27 of palestines gdp, which is now down to 1. 8 . Thats quite a large contribution, and of course the drop that is very drastic. Anyways, lets find out what i guess think thats more important, our first segment of our q a, rabia billings natuno joins us, she is a pro palesathian and human rights activists. Rabia billings tuna, welcome to economic divide, first question, is about the occupation both in gaza and the opt occupied palestinian territories, the economic consequences have been devastating, the gazaip, especially things like water or controlling material that comes in. How did that and sie impact gazas economy . Which in part uh was a driving factor perhaps behind what is occurred . Okay so my take is before we can do into the economic factors i have to realize that cant look at the situation in a vacuum, we have to focus on like most resistance movements like even in south africa starts with the basic denial of human rights and and what has happened in gaza and the rest of palestine is and seen it and the escalation of violence um which ultimately has seen 2023 as being the deadliest year for palestinians and its and its everything its Israeli Security forces who has perpetuated wide spread attacks on palestinians which also involved included aerial bombardments, these areal bombardments leave leave the military border polices, Police Forces are killing palestinian children, palestinians are regularly subjected to violence by Israeli Settlers, which includes things likely subjected to violence by Israeli Settlers, which includes things like physical attacks, shooting live ammunition, thank you for that, we appreciate it, let me bring in blain coman now, bds activist and campaigner who joins us. Blake komen, welcome to economic divide. Um, in the oced territories, in particular, obviously im talking about west bank here, theres a lot of israel control that it exerts um over the palestinian Economic Activity, things like imports, workforce participation, for example, or the availability of palestinian products on the market. Were trying to get an idea from you if we can, the type of control and how much of it is exercised on palestinians, which makes life very hard for them. Well, its extremely extraordinarily severe and cruel this control that israel exercises over the west bank. For example, israel has split the west bank into hundreds of gettos, sealed off from each other by hundreds of military checkpoints and road blocks supplemented by armed and dangerous settlers roaming the main roads, and so in the best of times before this horrible assault on gaza, was like that in the west bank, now now youve got these uh Israeli Settlers driving palestinians physically out of huge areas of the west bank with lot of violence. Um, now the exact Economic Impact if you want that, between 2000 and 2020, it has cost palestinians 50 billion dollars. 50 billion dollars in occupied west bank is lot of money. We have a full understanding of how the people of palestine have taken up this issue, we all work together. Palestine will be free, people getting together for to protest the going genocide on the strip and on occupied palestine as a whole. This is intolerable and cannot continue. Section of the program, when it comes to the focus in this in that section, so many facts are unknown in terms of the way that israel actually controls and restricts the Palestinian Economy in more ways than one, and it has done so throughout the years and decades and wed like to give you a feel as to how palestinian lives are prevented from developing. So lets move to the first uh item that we have for you, first is the 1994 paris protocol. Now whats important about this . Um it shows the economic relation between israel and palestine and uh this was an agreement uh between um israel when it happened and plogned on the 29th of april 1994 and it was incorporated with minor amendments into uh at that point the also 2 accord of the same year uh this protocol actually leave the ground work uh which basically strengthened the economic base you want to call it of the palestinian side and for exercising its right of economic decisionmaking. Things like exports that are being absorbed by israel, you can see 85 of it is actually absorbed, taxes israel has control of it, these are taxes that are supposed to pay the salaries of palestinians and in terms of competition. The product restrictions and then imports lets say from israel 70 of that is actually restricted so this 1994 protocol should be termed israel restriction on the Palestinian Economy uh so lot of problems emanate from this particular protocol that was signed all right lets move to the next item that we have for uh this is also very important is the cost of check points so many checkpoints in territories uh based on what we have million work hours are lost each year as a result the palestinians forced to wait. At the israeli occupace check points. Next up, 170 million, the annual cost to the economy resulting from the loss of work hours because of the checkpoints. We spend time at the checkpoints, theres a loss of uh work as a result. Look at the amount of fuel, 80 million liters of fuel are wasted to the time spent to checkpoints and traffic for example or to pass through the checkpoints and as a result of building up congestion. Were looking at the cost for the gasoline itself, 135 Million Dollars overall in petrol and diesel. Cost, can you believe that checkpoint actually have these consequences for palestinians and then this one over here, 196,00 tons of Carbon Dioxide is emited per year, thats in a climate related uh note uh, which is a consequence, and of course that affects uh peoples lives, so checkpoints is big deal there in um the occupied territories for the palestinians when want to for example go to work, well have that coming up in the mahi section. All right, lets move up to the next item, which is also very important here, and thats the losses that are incurred to the Palestinian Economy. Now this particular graph you see over here which is going to go on segments regarding the losses that are happening uh has to deal with area by the name of area s were looking at and im going to give you the population of palestinis that exists there which is estimated to be around 300 to 4000 palestinians live in 532 residential areas you also of course settlers are 230 illegal settlements but it covers 60 of occupied west bank uh these are the losses that have been incurred some categories Economic Growth down 1. 1 billion dollars, deb 918 million. Again, these are the types of uh overall revenues that can be generated for the Palestinian Economy, and we take these categories all like agriculture, stone, tourism, construction, telecommunications, this is the type of loss that incurs on the Palestinian Economy, youre looking at 2,416. 1 billion dollars, mean thats a big loss when we think about uh how much this could enhance the lives of palestinians as a result of these uh restrictions and controls that israel has uh Palestinian Economy as a whole, lives cannot therefore be enjoyed by the palestinians especially with respect to the way that israel is are it. Lets see what our guests think about this. Let me bring rabia billings natuna back into pro palestinian and human rights activists. Tuna, welcome back to the program, when you take a look at the. What happened with palestinians, there is movement called bds, which im sure youre well, well aware of the boycot investment and sanction, which has been in the works for quite some time, but now that this war has happened, there are calls for it to really get inforced to be rebooted, what do you think, what are the chances of that . More and more people uh are moving towards this, its definitely what helped us in south africa, bds has been beneficial to south africa. Like in fact, today i received a petition against the us, the us government, the uk government, to stop trading with israel, just today, and there were 87,000 signatures on that patition, so in south africa, if we didnt have pds, i dont think our political situation would have changed when countries continue to do trade. With um israel, even though they break International Law and theyve been breaking International Law, theres no recourse, theres no recourse and israel will continue what they are doing to palestinians. Yeah, indeed, thats the problem that there is no recourse. Blain kolman rejoins us now, blain colman is actually as we before a bds activist in campaigner or better to talk about this than him. Coman, welcome back to the program. You know, this bds movement is great in the structure and. What its promotes when it comes to basically sanctioning boycotting um israel, but um, do you think that it has reached the peak that it could, or has not, and why hasnt it . Because at this point its a perfect time to actually reinvigorate uh this movement. I hope so, the International Movement against the apartide south africa, boycott south africa, sanction south africa, divest from south africa is one of the main things that brought that apartied. Down, and i hope there is the will internationally to do the same thing against this last apartide state on earth, the apartite state of israel. We dont forget. That apartied israel is an extremely intimate ally of apartied south africa, israel tried to give south africa apartied south africa atomic bombs. This was reported in the guardian, so so this is the kind of regime that got defeated finally by sanctions, but i know eventually apart israel will be defeated by sanctions and boycots in the same way. Yeah, this is the time to do. You bet this is the time to do it, in the ghaza strip, the crisis is even worse, because strip has been subject to a land, air and sea blocade as well as recurrent military offenses. Some 2. 3 Million People live in the narrow coastal strip. Recent data shows that the combined contribution of the manufacturing and agriculture sectors as percentage of. Gaza went down from 27 in 194 to 17 in 2021. The 2023 report, when agencies estimated that 58 of gaza strip residents required humanitarian assistance with 29 of gazan households living in extreme or catastrophic conditions, but nows to do more to put economic pressure on israel to stop choke Palestinian Economy. One of those tools is the boycott, sanctions and divist movements. The antiracist nonviolent bds movement represents tens of millions worldwide. Bds has called for ending international state, corporate and institutional complicity in israels regime of oppression so that the palestinians can enjoy un stipulated rights. The movement can now play a more active role in putting pressure on israel. Furthermore, calls are growing to impose sanctions on israel. Irans minister hossain abdullah has called on the. Organization of islamic cooperation oic Member States to impose political and economic sanctions and embargo on israel. The constant policy of usurping the palestinian lands, continuation of settlement, construction, destruction of farmed land and residential houses, torturing women, children and men and controlling the Water Resources and electricity. They are nothing but crimes against humanity. Islamic countries must coordinate efforts to immediately put an end to the war crimes of the Israeli Regime committed against civilians, especially women and children. Hello and welcome to the quick tech section, im mattia posian. When it comes to the occupied palestinian territories, the israeli control of palestinians Economic Life is what we would like to focus on. So, lets take a look a day in the life of a palestinian, which is quite different than what an israeli is experiencing. At 7 30 am, a palestinian takes a shower when. Comes to water palestinians in the west bank must buy water from israels National Water company which appropriates 80 the west bank water supply 8 30 am time to fill up the car with gas to drive to work to romala or alcots usually. Israel has prevented palestinians from excessing oil and gas reserves on their own territory, making them dependent on israel for their energy needs. 8 45 driving to work. Israel maintains over 98 fixed. Points and hundreds of random flying checkpoints choking palestinian freedom movement. 1 p. M. Time to buy a lunch, there is no palestinian currency. Everyone uses the israeli shackle, which means that israel is capable of blocking any future attempts to create a palestinian currency. 3 pm, by book online. This points to import and export. All palestinian imports go through the israeli custom system. Israeli authorities can block any import from reaching its rent. One of. The problem for palestinians not only in gaza, but for the west bank is the issue of water. Without water, it is hard for palestinians to live, let alone exist. This shows the average daily water consumption per person from israels to the who recommendated minimum. It is obvious here, how palestinians are consuming and the west bank, palestinian communities who are not hooked up to the water grid. And now, lets look at israel. A bleak economic picture is facing the regime. Businesses all. Across the board are suffering, companies ranging from airlines to banks have shot operations, asking their employees to work from home. When it comes to travel, several asian, european and us airlines have suspended direct flights to tel aviv. Jevron, the second largest oil and gas producer in the us has been ordered by israels ministry of energy to shut down the tomor natural gas field off. Goldman sachs and Jp Morgan Chase has asked employees its office in tel aviv to work from home. Bank of america has thats the end of this quick take segment, dont forget to send us your comments and questions, im and ill see you next week. The israel regime is to Pay Attention to the economic fellowt of the war that is it is waiting with the blessing of the us. Its going to take a long time for confidence to return to the israeli economy, if there is israeli economy to return to the spectra of war always loom in palestinian cause is not resolved, and in order for that to happen, it cant be anything less than all palestine be free, in order to bring about Economic Freedom for palestinians, a dream, a reality, lets talk what you think, by way behind me. Goes that to be the topic of our ending and thats the bds reboots which can be fatal when it comes to israel is existence and of course its economy tell us what you think about that Contact Information behind me from and the team here economic divide its goodbye from the next program. انا لله وانا اليه راجعون انا لله وانا اليه راجعون. For all of its importance in terms of its targeting was part of campaign. We believe the only way that the brits to the negotiating table was for a sustained campaign, not one operation, no matter how significant, it was about get a long term attack england, and uh, i think eventually we did that after lot of stops and starts and i wasnt part, i was in jail that. Uh, wed have operated in england, withdrew because of logistics involved, and then come back to it, applying the sort of pressure thats going to be needed to a long time, long time for the movement to gain what was needed, and eventually