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A young son of Iyad Al- Natshi, a 47-year old Palestinian shoemaker works in his shop in the West Bank city of Hebron, 21 December 2016. Many underage Palestinian children work in their families' small businesses in order to support them in the hard economic situation in the West Bank. Using standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the number of unemployed in the Palestine territories was 352,800 in the 1st quarter of 2016; distributed as 202,800 in Gaza Strip and 150,000 in the West Bank, representing 41.2 per cent in Gaza Strip compared with 18.0 per cent in the West Bank, according to figures by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). (Photo by Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA)
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