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Thousands apply for short-term jobs program in Gaza

In a move to address the unemployment crisis, the Gaza government has created temporary employment projects that aim to provide temporary relief and stimulate the economy.
Unemployed Palestinian workers crowd in front of the Palestine Islamic Bank in Gaza to receive a $100 aid from the government appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas September 30, 2007.  REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA) - RTR1UFIM
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a press conference in Gaza on July 12, Palestinian Labor Minister Mamoun Abu Shahla announced the start of the registration process for the first phase of a short-term employment project: hiring 4,000 university graduates and laborers for positions to last six months.

Abu Shahla told Al-Monitor, “The project’s first phase provides 4,000 jobs for graduates, blue-collar workers and technicians equally, each 2,000, in the health and education sectors and municipalities, as well as economic facilities affected by the 2014 Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.”

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