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GAZA: Some 5,000 unemployed Palestinians have registered over the past week at a Gaza trade union office for jobs they hope will materialize in post-Qaddafi Libya, local labor officials said on Monday.

UN figures put unemployment in the Gaza Strip, a sliver of territory run by the Islamist group Hamas and blockaded by Israel, at 45 percent.

“They told us there is a registration for job opportunities in Libya so I came to register like other people,” said Ashraf Abu Halloub, 25, a farmer, at the office of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions.

Hundreds of Palestinians who worked in Libya returned to the Palestinian territories after the uprising against Muammar Qaddafi’s 42 years of one-man rule erupted in February.

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