The occupying entity has lost about 950,000 jobs since it launched a war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, in addition to hundreds of thousands of people unable to reach their workplaces in the settlements around Gaza and in the north on the border with Lebanon.

This comes as the destructive war on the Gaza Strip entered its sixth week, resulting in massive destruction of the sector's infrastructure and the martyrdom and injury of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The total number of workers employed by the occupier reaches nearly 4 million workers and employees, according to data from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (governmental), while the unemployment rate was about 3% until the end of September 2023, that is, a week before the outbreak of the war.

Since the outbreak of the war on the Gaza Strip, more than 178,000 Palestinian workers have been unable to reach their workplaces in the occupied territories and settlements, and data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (governmental) shows that 153,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank and Gaza work in Tel Aviv alongside 25,000 workers in the settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

This workforce has been confined to their homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since October 7 due to field conditions and the inability of economic sectors to operate amid security tensions.

Last month, Tel Aviv cancelled the permits of 18,500 Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip, while the majority of Palestinian workers from the West Bank still do not know their status.

Simultaneously with the Israeli economy losing Palestinian labor, 350,000 Israeli employees and workers left their offices and joined the army to participate in the war on the Gaza Strip and limited clashes in the north on the border with Lebanon.

Also, about 46,000 Israeli workers were dismissed due to the war, according to data from the Ministry of Labor, and in total, about 760,000 of the workforce, or 18%, are not working.

And there are approximately 25,000 Asian workers, most of whom work in agriculture, who left their jobs, and some of them traveled to their home countries fleeing the war.