Business & Economy
EI's Business & Economy section offers reports and news about the economics and commerce in Palestinian society, and reports on the how the Israeli economy is impacted by the ongoing conflict. Quality submissions are welcomed.
Gaza's strawberries spoil under siege
Report, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 22 July 2010
Israel's policy towards strawberry farming in Gaza, and particularly their exports, is a demonstration in the economics of occupation. [MORE]
Gaza's bee industry stung by Israeli attacks
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Said Hillis, 60, has kept bees since he was a boy. Until the Israeli attacks changed his business. Until 2009 Hillis' farm had hundreds of trees, and more than 10,000 chickens. "It was all destroyed during the Israeli attacks," Hillis says. [MORE]
Tough times for Gaza travel agent
Report, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 18 July 2010
"Shurafa Tourist and Travel Company has been operating in Gaza since 1952," Nabil Shurafa, general manager of the company, says proudly. This historical background is significant, as much for understanding the many and various forms of movement restrictions with which Shurafa Travel has had to deal during Gaza's 43 year occupation as for providing a rationale for how and why Shurafa remains open under the current restrictions. [MORE]
Belgian-French bank cornered over Israeli settlement financing
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2010
BRUSSELS (IPS) - New evidence has been uncovered to show that Dexia, a major Belgian-French bank, is still financing Israeli settlements in the OPT despite official assurances that such loans have ceased. Jean-Luc Dehaene, a former Belgian prime minister and now Dexia's chairman, announced last year that the bank had not approved any new loans to authorities located in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank since June 2008. [MORE]
Palestinian civil society slams OECD over Israel's accession
Press release, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, 10 May 2010
Palestinian civil society represented by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, a wide coalition of the largest Palestinian mass organizations and trade unions, issued a strong condemnation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's decision today to welcome Israel as a member of the organization at its ministerial meeting to take place on 27-28 May. [MORE]
Israel offers Palestinians day shoppers, not statehood
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 15 July 2009
The reality of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's promises of "economic peace" for the Palestinians is nowhere under greater scrutiny than in Jenin, the northern West Bank city being aggressively promoted as a potential model of cooperation with Israel. Jonathan Cook reports from Jenin. [MORE]
Palestinian olive oil's Fairtrade journey
Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 20 April 2009
In spring 2008, several years of careful negotiations finally culminated in the first Palestinian olive oil being awarded Fairtrade status. The oil, sourced from the Palestine Fair Trade Producers Company (PFTPC), based in the West Bank city of Jenin, is both the first Palestinian product to receive Fairtrade certification, and the first olive oil to be allowed to use the mark. Sarah Irving reports for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Israeli settlement produce may be enjoying EU privileges
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 6 April 2009
BRUSSELS (IPS) - European Union officials are seeking evidence to support claims that fruit and vegetables from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are being exported under false pretense. In a note circulated to its fellow EU governments in late 2008, Britain expressed concern that goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank may be entering the Union without paying the legally required duties. [MORE]
Report: UK economic links with Israeli settlements
Report, Profundo, 18 March 2009
The purpose of this report is to document economic links between UK companies and those based in settlements. The research has identified 68 British companies which have direct or indirect relationships with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory; 49 of which have their head office in the United Kingdom and 19 of which are British subsidiaries of companies based in Israel or other countries. [MORE]
Justice and couscous
Gen Sander, The Electronic Intifada, 25 February 2009
The spirit's resolve is an amazing tool for change and was the trigger for a remarkable group of women from Ein al-Sultan camp to come together a few years ago to devise an innovative way in which to break free from the shackles of their destitution. And so begins the inspirational story of Jericho's women's fair trade couscous cooperative. Gen Sander reports from Jericho. [MORE]
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