38 the activities of most private economic enterprises. In addition, the government demanded for projects that the private sector provides which affected the level of economic growth, and the resulting expansion, increase in unemployment rates, and the doubling of the number of workers who were absent from their work. This was reflected in the decline in indicators of the right to work, and the damage incurred by the business sector and the economic structure, and the poor official interventions to balance and modify these indicators, compared to the years preceding the pandemic. The labor sector strategy for the years 2020-2022 in Palestine, which was issued by the Ministry of Labor, included an integrated plan for emergency response and recovery of the labor sector in Palestine. This plan aims to focus the government’s efforts towards a specific set of political interventions that help mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the labor market by protecting and sustaining the income flows of Palestinian workers, while at the same time ensuring acceptable levels of business continuity. At the same level, the Ministry of Labor in the Gaza Strip provided (16,200) job opportunities with a budget of (25) million dollars, and provided financial assistance to (81,850) workers in the sectors most affected by the pandemic, with a budget of (8,570,000) dollars, and supported wages of (8,570,000) dollars. 800) for affected workers in the industrial and tourism sectors for a period of two months. ICHR notes that the previous interventions were insufficient and poor as a response to cover all labor sectors, in addition to the lack of clear and announced criteria in the process of distributing relief cash to workers affected by the Corona pandemic, and the failure to specify the numbers of beneficiaries of the relief grant and its geographical distribution. ICHR recommends the following: • The necessity for the Ministry of Labor to sponsor new labor agreements that bring together the three production parties, through which they guarantee the preservation of the rights of workers and employers, and prevent the hegemony or exclusivity of one of the production parties in exploiting the emergency situation, and violate the standards of the right to work. • The necessity for the Ministry of Labor to develop and increase its oversight role to the extent to which work establishments adhere to the standards and conditions of risk prevention and health safety related to the pandemic. • The necessity of the Ministry of Labor’s commitment to implementing and applying the minimum wage, developing mechanisms to ensure monitoring and follow-up, adhering to the periodicity of the amendment outlined in the decision, and setting a specific period for the minimum wage amendment. The Status of Human Rights in Palestine