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Ynetnews · 2021-04
In this report on a surge of COVID-19 cases in crowded Gaza that threatened to overwhelm its hospitals, and on the night curfews Hamas reimposed during Ramadan, economist Omar Shaban describes the economic cost of the new restrictions. Ramadan, he says, normally provides temporary employment to 30,000 to 50,000 people, mainly restaurant workers and vendors, and most of that work has gone with the lockdown.
In this report on a surge of COVID-19 cases in crowded Gaza that threatened to overwhelm its hospitals, and on the night curfews Hamas reimposed during Ramadan, economist Omar Shaban describes the economic cost of the new restrictions. Ramadan, he says, normally provides temporary employment to 30,…