18 losses in different economic sectors, especially the industrial sector. The result was a rise in unemployment rates to about (48.6%), based on the results of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics report on the labor force for the third quarter of 2020, in addition to high rates of poverty, where more than half of the Gaza Strip population is below the poverty line. 3. Local government sector The occupation authorities have obstructed the implementation of more than thirty infrastructure projects, which the Ministry implements with self-financing and with the support of institutions and donor countries for international development. 4. Environment sector The Environment Quality Authority continued to face a number of Israeli challenges and obstacles that limited its ability to implement national policies for the protection of the Palestinian environment. This manifested in impeding access to areas classified as “C” and the areas behind the annexation and expansion wall. The occupation authorities prevented citizens and official institutions from accessing the areas behind the annexation and expansion wall that contain natural areas, where Israeli practices pollute the environment, smuggling and establishing landfills for Israeli waste. Occupation authorities continued to dispose of hazardous waste from the settlements and the 1948-occupied territories, in the Palestinian territories in several forms. This included burning, landfills, recycling, separating, sorting, and returning materials that can be used to the Israeli side, in violation of IHL and international conventions, without taking into account any environmental or health considerations and requirements. In addition to 17 official Israeli waste treatment facilities, there are more than 40 disposal sites in the Palestinian territories. 5. Security sector and rule of law The occupation authorities continued to impede the work of the security services and put obstacles during their movement from one area to another, especially in the areas that fall under their security control in areas classified as “C”. This has caused obstacles to their work and their ability to carry out the tasks entrusted to them in order to preserve the rights of the Palestinian citizen and ensure security, in addition to carrying out judicial control, implementing court decisions, settling disputes between citizens and imposing order and law. The occupation’s arrest of workers in the ranks of Palestinian security forces’ The Status of Human Rights in Palestine