Israel holds Palestinian economy captive, say analysts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The Gaza war has devastated swathes of the strip and also hit the public finances and wider economy of the Israeli-occupied West Bank"By not allowing Palestinian workers into Israel and withholding Palestinian tax revenues, Ben Gvir and Smotrich aim to overthrow the Palestinian Authority because they view it as an enemy," he said.
52% : The Palestinian economy is largely governed by the 1994 Paris Protocol, which granted sole control over the territories' borders to Israel, and with it the right to collect import duties and value-added tax for the Palestinian Authority.

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