(MENAFN) The Popular Committee For Ending Gaza Siege has said that 80% of factories in Gaza Strip have shut down either partially or completely.
It added that there are 300,000 unemployed workers and thousands of jobless graduates, Quds Net News reported on Tuesday.
In a statement, the head of the committee, Jamal al-Khodari MP, said that Israel has tightened its siege of Gaza and it aims "completely destroy the Gazan economy".
Israel, with the support of Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, has maintained a siege on Gaza for 12-years as the international community has taken no action to end it.
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