Third Session: Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Medium-Term

Social Protection Systems to Combat Mass Poverty and Fragility,

This session sheds light on the devastation caused by the Israeli occupation’s one-year aggression, by discussing the Israeli policies that led to the decline in socioeconomic conditions and increased levels of multidimensional poverty in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. A brief revision of the social protection system is provided, including the status of poverty and fragility, key actors, and provisions, while identifying structural and emergent challenges to short-term relief and long-term poverty alleviations. As a conclusion, the position paper on this topic provides prospects for the provision of urgent social protection to relief
people’s current insecurities, but also a vision for social protective systems that promote equal and just development and opportunities that reduces people’s susceptibility to social and economic vulnerability.