Since October 7, the outlook for the Palestinian economy has been bleak. Since the start of the war, territory controlled by Israel has been closed to tens of thousands of Palestinian workers.

Entrepreneurs “don’t have confidence in the situation’, says Salem Manoly, head of a large timber sales company in the Palestinian Territories and Israel. “After this war, there will be a lot of changes in all areas. Relations between Israelis and Palestinians will no longer be the same,” says Manoly.