Today, Thursday, Israel began freezing the work permits of about 80,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, according to an official source.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said, “The Israeli Civil Administration (affiliated with the Ministry of Defense) has begun freezing about 80,000 permits for Palestinian workers from the West Bank.”
Since the beginning of Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza on October 7, Israel has been preventing workers from the West Bank from accessing the Israeli market for work.
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The Broadcasting Authority claimed a few days ago that the Israeli army is renewing work permits for tens of thousands of Palestinian workers from the West Bank.
She explained that at the end of last May, the head of the Civil Administration, Hisham Ibrahim, decided to consider freezing the automatic renewal of work permits for Palestinians in the West Bank, who were entitled to them before the outbreak of the war, until a decision was taken at the political level to allow them to work.
Before the war, more than 170,000 Palestinians worked in Israel and constituted an important source of income for the Palestinian economy.
Israel does not allow Palestinian workers to pass through Israeli checkpoints unless they obtain permits from the Israeli army.
Previous estimates issued by the Israeli Ministry of Finance indicate that the absence of Palestinian workers in the construction, agricultural and industrial sectors costs production a loss of 3 billion shekels ($840 million) per month.
Occupation army operations
In addition to the restrictions imposed on Palestinian workers, the Israeli army expanded its operations in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and settlers intensified their attacks on Palestinians and their property.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire and settlers in the West Bank has reached 543 since the start of the war on Gaza, in addition to the injury of about 5,200, and the arrest of 9,185, according to official Palestinian authorities.
While the Israeli war on Gaza left more than 122,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
