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Video: Gaza unemployment up

 

  

 Unemployment soars in Gaza 
 

Across the Gaza Strip, over 700 factories and businesses were destroyed by the Israel’s last offensive, increasing the unemployment level to a staggering 80 per cent.

Businesses in Gaza are now struggling to remain open. Two years of blockades and air strikes have crippled the industry.

Al Jazeera’s Casey Kauffman reports from Gaza on one man’s fight to keep his business operating against the odds.