Palestine Industries Exhibition  which opened on Saturday, August 9, at the Nablus municipality complex, closed Monday.

It was the largest event to be held in Nablus in over eight years, said the Palestinian independent news agency MAAN.


Palestinian industry, he said, is one of the ways that the people can combat the siege, unemployment and poverty. "Economic growth, however," he added, "is necessarily related to security and politics."

The exhibition was attended by local government leaders as well as figures from the Arab world and international representatives from various consulates in the area. It also featured representatives from 72 different Palestinian companies from all over the West Bank, and will last three days.