"The quality of life of residents in Gaza regressed to 69 years ago".

The indicator of the quality of life of Gaza residents has regressed to the level of 69 years ago, according to the survey.

In a report on the 22nd local time, the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Economic and Social Council of West Asia diagnosed that Gaza's human development index and HDI will fall to 0.408 at the end of this year.

HDI is an index that measures the quality of life of residents, and the evaluation factors include life expectancy, expected education years, average education years, and national income per capita, which means that the closer to 1, the higher the quality of life.

Gaza's end-of-year HDI estimate of 0.408 is the same as the 1955 figure and the war has regressed the standard of living to 69 years ago, the report said.

In the case of the West Bank, where violence is frequent, the HDI is estimated to fall to 0.676 at the end of this year, a figure that went back 16 years.

"With 2.61 million new poverty cases this year in Palestine, the total poverty rate will reach 4.1 million," the UN Development Program said. "The poverty rate will rise to 74.3% at the end of the year."

It also predicted that "the gross domestic product of the entire Palestinian region will fall 35.1% from before the Gaza war and the unemployment rate will rise 49.9%."

The U.N. Development Program notes that relying solely on humanitarian aid, as it is now, will take at least a decade for the quality of life in the Palestinian region to recover to pre-war levels.