Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: 'Don't seek to occupy, govern Gaza,' says Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Read all the latest updates on the Israel-Hamas war hereThe Israel-Hamas war will push millions of Palestinians into poverty, a UN report on the conflict's possible long-term impacts warned.The gross domestic product shrank 4% in the West Bank and Gaza in the war’s first month, sending over 400,000 people into poverty.If the war continues for a second month, the UN projects that the Palestinian gross domestic product, which was $20.4 billion before the war, will drop by 8.4%. That’s a loss of $1.7 billion.
And if the conflict lasts a third month, Palestinian GDP will drop by 12%, with losses of $2.5 billion and more than 660,000 people pushed into poverty.Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza, the US said. However, some foreign mediasaid, citing sources, that Israeli troops have called it ‘tactical pauses’, but no ‘ceasefire’.
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