War with Iran Leaves 292,000 Unemployed in Israel
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency and Al Mayadeen, June 2025 witnessed an unprecedented rise in unemployment in the occupied territories. The Hebrew-language newspaper Kalkalist, specializing in economic issues, attributed this increase to the closure of the regime’s economy due to its ongoing war with Iran.
This Zionist source referred to statistics released by the Central Bureau of Statistics of the occupied territories and emphasized that even though this level of unemployment might potentially be temporary, it will have notable effects on domestic economic stability.
Official reports indicate that unemployment in the occupied territories surged from 4.2 percent in May to over 10.1 percent in June, affecting approximately 465,000 people.
the magazine expressed skepticism about whether these figures fully reflect layoffs but clarified that they mainly represent conditions where businesses are forced to close due to infrastructure shutdowns and restricted access to workplaces rather than individual or mass dismissals.
The rate of workforce participation also dropped sharply during this period-from around 61 percent in may down to 56.8 percent in June-meaning at least 292,000 people became unemployed within a month.
Kalkalist described these statistics as unprecedented and stressed that they point to an almost complete halt of economic activities throughout the occupied territories.
