Quote:'[...] the Palestinian ["Palestine" - Gaza and in Judah and Samaria ("West Bank")] ratio of exports to GDP was a modest 0.6% for 2023. [...]'

Extract source:
https://www.worldstopexports.com/palestines-top-10-exports/

Quote:'In 2020, 77 percent of households in Gaza received aid (compared to 10 percent in the West Bank), the majority of which came from UNRWA[9] and was concentrated on food and cash assistance (78 and 57 percent, respectively).[10] [...]'

(See webpage for citations.)

Extract source:
https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2023/327/article-A001-en.xml

Quote:'[...] 04/14/2025
EU pledges €1.6 billion in new aid for Palestinians

The European Union has announced a three-year financial support package for the Palestinians worth up to €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion).

"We are stepping up our support to the Palestinian people. €1.6 billion until 2027 will help stabilize the West Bank and Gaza," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on X on Monday. [...]'

Extract source:
https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-eu-pledges-16-billion-for-palestinians/live-72237121

Quote:'[...] How are we helping?

In 2024, the European Commission has significantly increased its humanitarian assistance to Palestine, allocating €237 million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

In 2025, the Commission announced an initial €120 million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians. [...]'

Extract source:
[Note: Each year this webpage's stated payments are replaced with the new years payments!]
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/where/middle-east-and-northern-africa/palestine_en

Quote:'The new 2013 report of the Court [European Court of Auditors] reveals that $2.7 billion in direct aid [foreign aid given by the European Union] to the Palestinians between 2008 and 2012 could not be accounted for and appeared to be lost. In addition, EU investigators who visited Jerusalem and areas on the West Bank were unable to obtain information or speak to Palestinian officials about corruption in the areas they controlled.'

Extract source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/10/the_unsurprising_corruption_of_palestinian_authorities.html

Quote:'[...] international aid organizations and many countries kept on sending money to Gaza, purportedly for humanitarian aid. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, raises money for Gaza through its Web site, with payments going through WorldPay (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ), the Arab Bank PLC in Gaza and HSBC in Amman, Jordan. Those funds come in addition to UNRWA's annual budget of $400 million. 

The $7 billion to $10 billion that the Palestinian Authority has received since 1993 has come from the European Union, the U.N., the U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries. France alone has sent more than $3 billion. This influx of cash has done little to advance the development of a viable Palestinian state or of peace in the region. Rather, it has helped to fuel the Palestinian leadership's terrorist agenda, and kept the Palestinian people oppressed and disenfranchised. [...]'

Extract source:
"Where Hamas Gets Its Money", Jan 16, 2009:
https://www.forbes.com/2009/01/16/gaza-hamas-funding-oped-cx_re_0116ehrenfeld.html?sh=731eb2d57afb

Quote:'[...] the Gaza Strip’s population of roughly 1.8 million has an unusually large proportion of children. Figures for 2013 from Index Mundi, the internet source of country data, show that that 43.5 per cent of the population is aged 14 or under [https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/gaza-strip.israel/demographics]
[...]

Pedersen [Jon Pedersen of the Fafo Institute, a centre for demographic and social research in Oslo, Norway], says that a sense of duty to expand the population is a factor that can’t be dismissed. “There have been statements from Hamas urging women to have more children to create a larger army,” he says.' 

Extracts source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250326050346/https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25993-the-reasons-why-gazas-population-is-so-young/

Quote:'[Major heading:] “9. European Parliament resolution of 29 April 2021 with observations forming an integral part of the decisions on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019, Section III – Commission and executive agencies (2020/2140(DEC))

[...]

444. Is concerned about the hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks and used in schools by UNRWA [“United Nations Relief and Works Agency”]; is concerned about the effectiveness of UNRWA’s mechanisms of adherence to UN [“United Nations”] values in educational materials used and taught by UNRWA staff in its schools, which contain hate speech and incitement to violence; [...]'

Extract source:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0164_EN.html