Nonetheless, these gains were insufficient to arrest or reverse the decline in social and economic indicators which showed the ongoing, and in some cases deepening, distress among large numbers of Palestinians.
然而，这些进展并不足以遏制或扭转社会和经济指标的下滑，大量巴勒斯坦人仍然承受压力，有的还有加深的趋势。