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Unemployment rate nearly 80 per cent in Gaza: UN

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A member of a United Nations investigation team holds large chunks of shrapnel during a visit by investigators of a school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. [AFP]

The war in Gaza has seen the unemployment rate in the besieged Palestinian territory surge to nearly 80 per cent, the United Nations said Friday.

The UN's labour agency said the war between Hamas and Israel had "caused loss of jobs and livelihoods on a massive scale", while gross domestic product has also plunged.

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