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Gazan patients and workers still stranded in West Bank four months on
With Israel revoking their permits after October 7 and sealing the Strip, thousands of Palestinians do not know when they’ll see their families again.
By
Fatima AbdulKarim
February 23, 2024
Unsupervised and unprotected, Gaza laborers suffer under permit regime
Thousands of Palestinians enter Israel every day from Gaza on permits that don’t cover medical care. When accidents occur, they have nowhere to turn.
By
Mohammed Zaanoun
August 25, 2023
After deadly attacks, Israel targets Palestinian workers for punishment
Palestinian laborers from the occupied territories fear for their livelihood as Israeli authorities and vigilante groups try to block their employment.
By
Yuval Abraham
March 31, 2022
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They should have been lawyers. Instead they’re at Israeli construction sites
A generation of Palestinian graduates find that despite their degrees, their only way to earn a living under occupation is to work construction in Israel.
By
Basel Adra
November 7, 2021
Israel approves COVID vaccines for undocumented persons, but not for Palestinians
Health Ministry bars thousands of West Bank Palestinians living in Israel from getting vaccinated at makeshift COVID clinics around the country.
By
Oren Ziv
February 18, 2021
Why Jordan Valley settlers fear annexation more than Palestinians do
Some Palestinians support the valley's annexation, hoping it could lead to equality — which is exactly why Jewish settlers are worried.
By
Yuval Abraham
January 28, 2020
IDF puts Palestinians under closure as Israelis go to the polls
While Jewish Israelis will be able to move freely in and out of the occupied West Bank, millions of Palestinians — even those with entry permits issued by the Israeli army — will be on lock-down. As millions of Israeli citizens head to the polls to vote on Tuesday, the Israeli army will put Palestinians…
By
Edo Konrad
April 8, 2019
Settlers to Palestinian laborers: ‘Work with human rights groups and lose your job’
Flyers posted in villages near Gush Etzion warn Palestinian laborers they will be banned from nearby settlements should they cooperate with anti-occupation groups. Settlers in the southern West Bank posted flyers warning Palestinian laborers not to cooperate with Israeli human rights activists or organizations if they want to keep their jobs. Tazpit News Agency, a settler-aligned English-language…
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Edo Konrad
February 4, 2019
Denying Palestinian laborers access to justice
A new Israeli labor regulation continues a trend of increasingly suspending rule of law for Palestinians in the West Bank, in this case leading to further segregation in access the courts. By Sawsan Zaher In the Israeli economy, dirty, difficult, and dangerous jobs often are left to some 170,000 foreign workers, among them 55,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank.…
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September 30, 2016
How police killed a Palestinian man, tried to blame his cousin
A Jerusalem court rejects police attempt to place the blame for their own bullets elsewhere, but it’s not the first time they’ve tried — or succeeded at doing so. By John Brown* On the night between Sunday and Monday of last week, Israeli Border Police officers shot and killed Mustafa Nimer, a resident of Ramat Gan,…
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September 9, 2016
How an IDF general whitewashed the killing of three innocent Palestinians
Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan was trying to support a soldier charged with killing an unarmed Palestinian. Instead, he ended up confessing to a crime that could have severe repercussions at The Hague. By Yael Marom and John Brown* Late last week, Channel 2 news reported that three senior reserve officers — Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan, Brig.…
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August 22, 2016
Who notices when a Palestinian construction worker falls to his death?
Abed al-Harush is the 22nd construction worker killed in a work accident this year. That’s a number you won’t hear in the mainstream Israeli press. By Ruti Feuchtwanger Have you heard of Abed al-Harush from the West Bank city of Yatta? Probably not. And that’s not your fault. Most of us haven’t heard about him or…
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August 3, 2016
Charged with conspiracy — for renting a rope to climb over the wall
Despite admitting that the young man was only looking for work, police decide to charge him with conspiracy to commit a crime — renting a rope and ladder. Israeli police prosecutors indicted a 26-year-old Palestinian man in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Wednesday morning for climbing over the separation wall in order to find work. According…
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Haggai Matar
April 27, 2016
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