Before the war broke out, some 165,000 Palestinians worked in Israel and the West Bank settlements. Around 130,000 Palestinians had permits to work in Israel, while an estimated 35,000 worked without permits. The Palestinian Authority’s economy is at risk of collapsing because Palestinian workers have not been allowed to enter Israel since Hamas’s attack.
UNRWA has over 30,000 employees, most of them Palestinian and a small number of international staff–Source: UNRWA website. ——I am sure most of them are not working right now either.
