Israel Is Orchestrating an Economic Collapse in the West Bank

Job losses are only one factor in the equation driving its financial decline.

In front of high-rise apartment blocks is a jumble of discarded white good appliances. September 17, 2025, 12:01 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

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HEBRON, WEST BANK—Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Rauf, a Palestinian construction worker from the West Bank, has only returned to his job in Israel once, in July 2024. After climbing over the Israeli-built wall separating the West Bank and Israel, Rauf was caught by Israeli police during a raid at his employer’s construction site and jailed for 38 days for entering without a permit. Now back in the West Bank, he’s banned from Israel

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