Labor officials look into Palestinian employees' abuse in Israel

 


Allegations of mistreatment and abuse of Palestinian employees in Israel are being looked into by the influential International Labor Organization.

93 Palestinian labourers in Israel were killed by the Israeli army in 2022, and an additional 31 have been killed so far this year, according to a dossier that Palestinian officials have given to the organisation's fact-finding committee.

The study also covered unlawful working hours, the mistreatment of Palestinian employees at military checkpoints and barriers, and the lack of workplace health and safety regulations.

Shaher Saad, secretary-general of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, delivered the file.  Saad also revealed to detectives that the lack of a functioning social security system in Palestine was due to brokers and unlicensed middlemen taking about $34 million in fees out of employees' paychecks each month.

Around 170,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and 17,000 from the Gaza Strip are employed in Israel or in unlawful Israeli colonies. They are needed to spend roughly 2,500 shekels ($780) per month in fees for a work authorization in a corrupt system.

According to a study from the Institute for National Security Studies in 2021, those who sold work permits illegally made 1 billion shekels a year from about 40,000 Palestinian employees.

According to Palestinian sources who spoke to Arab News, Israeli troops have been attacking Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem more frequently throughout Ramadan.

The Israeli forces detained 13 people from various West Bank locations on Tuesday. The village of Huwara, south of Nablus, was under its control for the fourth day in a row at the same time.

The Israeli army had heavily stationed on the main street, erecting numerous obstacles and attempting to reroute residents' routes through side streets inside the town, according to Kamal Odeh, the Fatah secretary in Huwara.Military barracks were constructed out of several homes along Huwara's major thoroughfare.

Amer Hamdan, a rights worker from Nablus, told Arab News that the security scenario in the area around his hometown is alarming.

Additionally, three farming sites in the Al-Sawahra wilderness, east of Jerusalem, and a business building in Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers.

Salfit's governor, Maj. Gen. Abdullah Kamil, claimed that Israeli officials' demolitions in Salfit serviced the occupation's plans to evict Palestinian residents from their homes and lands in order to expand Israeli settlements.

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