GENEVA: The two-year Gaza war and economic restrictions have triggered an unprecedented collapse in the Palestinian economy, wiping out decades of growth, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. “Extensive damage to infrastructure, productive assets and public services has reversed decades of socioeconomic progress in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” according to the report by the United Nations trade and development agency (UNCTAD). The Palestinian GDP per capita by the end of last year returned to that of 2003, erasing 22 years of development progress, it added.

UN report warns attacks, restrictions have driven occupied territory's economy into its worst contraction.

GENEVA: The two-year Gaza war and economic restrictions have triggered an unprecedented collapse in the Palestinian economy, wiping out decades of growth, a United Nations report…