Palestinian Statistics: Sharp Rise in Consumer Prices During June 2025

SadaNews - A sharp rise in consumer prices in the Gaza Strip amid the resumption of Israeli occupation aggression and the limited number of commercial trucks allowed to enter through commercial crossings.

With the resumption of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the limited number of commercial trucks permitted to enter through commercial crossings, which has resulted in the loss of many essential goods in the markets of the sector due to the continued prohibition on their entry into the Gaza Strip during June 2025, the Consumer Price Index recorded a sharp increase in the Gaza Strip of 5.54% compared to May 2025. Meanwhile, the index increased in Jerusalem J1 by 0.35%, while it recorded a decrease of 0.27% in the West Bank, driving the overall Consumer Price Index in Palestine to increase by 3.45%.

Overall, price levels are experiencing sharp fluctuations between increases and decreases in the Gaza Strip, linked to developments in Israeli aggression and the flow of commercial crossings, and not due to changes resulting from market factors interacting. Thus, their impact on the general price index for the Palestinian territories is significant. This data must be taken into account when reading the cost of living index and focusing on changes in the cost of living at the regional level to understand the actual change. Given the uniqueness of this exceptional phase, it is inappropriate to use the average overall price index of the Palestinian territories to represent the average changes at the level of different regions due to the sharp variations in the data regionally and their substantial impact from price changes in the Gaza Strip.

Price levels are still higher than their counterparts in June of the previous year. When comparing prices during June 2025 to June 2024, data indicates an increase in the Consumer Price Index in Palestine by 51.41% (with 108.60% in the Gaza Strip, 1.83% in Jerusalem J1, and 0.70% in the West Bank).

Consumer Price Index at the level of Palestinian regions:
The Consumer Price Index in the Gaza Strip recorded a sharp increase of 5.54% during June 2025 compared to May 2025.

The prices of the following goods in the Gaza Strip increased to average; dry onion 240 shekels/kg, dry garlic 800 shekels/kg, sugar 223 shekels/kg, tomato paste 48 shekels/400g can, potatoes 81 shekels/kg, lemons 90 shekels/kg, grapes 140 shekels/kg, watermelon 29 shekels/kg, gasoline 250 shekels/liter, diesel 78 shekels/liter, coffee 935 shekels/kg, short-grain rice 47 shekels/kg, plastic house tomatoes 51 shekels/kg, eggplants 31 shekels/kg, hot pepper 69 shekels/kg, sweet pepper 65 shekels/kg, plastic house cucumbers 46 shekels/kg, lentils 37 shekels/kg, chickpeas 38 shekels/kg, pasta 14 shekels/350g, and noodles 20 shekels/500g.

Increase in the Cost of Living Index in Jerusalem J1:
The Consumer Price Index in Jerusalem J1 recorded an increase of 0.35% during June 2025, compared to May 2025, due to an increase in potato prices by 18.92%, fresh fruit prices by 3.72%, and fresh meat prices by 1.85%, despite a decrease in dried vegetable prices by 2.67%.

The following goods saw price increases in Jerusalem J1 to average: potatoes 4 shekels/kg, lemons 9 shekels/kg, apples 12 shekels/kg, figs 25 shekels/kg, fresh mutton with bone 125 shekels/kg, fresh veal 72 shekels/kg; conversely, the price of onions decreased to an average of 2 shekels/kg.

Decrease in the Cost of Living Index in the West Bank:
The Consumer Price Index in the West Bank recorded a decrease of 0.27% during June 2025, compared to May 2025, attributed to a decrease in fresh chicken prices by 8.77%, fresh fruit prices by 4.15%, dried vegetable prices by 3.46%, liquid fuels used as car fuel (diesel) by 1.39%, and potato prices by 0.94%, despite an increase in fresh vegetable prices by 5.72%.

Prices of the following goods in the West Bank decreased to average; fresh chicken 14 shekels/kg, lemons 6 shekels/kg, figs 19 shekels/kg, dry onions and potatoes 3 shekels/kg each, garlic 20 shekels/kg, diesel 5.67 shekels/liter, whereas the price of cluster tomatoes increased to an average of 7 shekels/kg, cauliflower 5 shekels/kg, and cabbage 4 shekels/kg. (It is worth noting that meat prices during June 2025 stabilized at a high price level of 113 for mutton and 64 for veal).

Consumer Price Index in Palestine
The increase in prices of essential goods in the Gaza Strip drove the Consumer Price Index to record an increase of 3.45% in Palestine during June 2025, as prices of dried vegetables increased by 134.35%, sugar prices by 116.26%, potato prices by 106.26%, prices of fresh fruits by 59.55%, prices of fresh vegetables by 29.26%, coffee prices by 23.40%, and rice prices by 12.05%.

Sharp rise in prices in the Gaza Strip for the first half of 2025
The cost of living index recorded a sharp increase of 27.55% for Palestine during the first half of 2025 compared to the first half of 2024, driven by the sharp increase in consumer goods that the Gaza Strip is still suffering from amid the ongoing Israeli aggression, which resulted in an increase of 67.65% for the same period. It should be noted that the cost of living index for Palestine is not taken into account due to the significant gap between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

While price levels in both the West Bank and Jerusalem J1 remain high, they are less severe than they were last year, recording an increase of 1.65% in Jerusalem J1 and 0.51% in the West Bank for the first half of 2025.