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The following are some interesting figures from October:
November 2016: the deadline the Palestinian Authority asked the U.N. Security Council to impose on Israel to end its occupation of all Palestinian lands.
$50,000 was donated to rebuild U.N. schools damaged during Israel’s summer assault on Gaza by 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. The young Pakistani, who has spoken out for the right of girls to an education and was shot by the Taliban, received the money upon winning the World’s Children’s Prize. 53 percent income decline was reported by SodaStream, causing its shares to fall more than 20 percent overnight. The company, which announced in October that it will close its facility in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank, has been a target of the BDS movement. 950 anthropologists signed a statement endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel.60,000 people, including Nobel Prize Laureates and religious organizations, called for a military embargo on Israel.
75 percent of Israeli Jews oppose a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, according to a poll commissioned by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
85 parliamentary seats were won by the victorious Nida Tunis in Tunisia’s Oct. 26 parliamentary elections. The Islamist Ennahda party, which previously controlled parliament, won 69 seats.9 U.S. drone strikes were carried out—8 in Pakistan and 1 in Yemen—killing 40 to 53 suspected militants, according to the New America Foundation.
10 days: the deadline Houthi leaders gave Yemeni President Raboo Mansour al-Hadi on Oct. 31 to form a new government. Hundreds were killed in Yemen in October as a result of sectarian clashes. 31 Egyptian soldiers were killed in the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 24 after militants carried out two attacks. The Egyptian government has been battling militants in northern Sinai for 15 months, attempting to gain control over the long unstable area near the Israeli border.1,797 civilians were killed in violence in Iraq, according to Iraq Body Count.
$800 million: the estimated yearly value of ISIS’ oil production, according to an estimate by IHS, an international research firm.
80 percent of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are out of school, according to a report by Save The Children. Of the 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, half are believed to be under the age of 17.
A new $40 million amusement park opened in a suburb of Damascus, highlighting the disparity in suffering in the war-torn country.
first published in Washington Report on Middle East Affair