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Palestinian Workers in Time of War
With no work, and no Israeli or Palestinian social safety net, 200,000 Palestinian workers in the West Bank paid a heavy price for the October 7 war.
23/02/2025
With no work, and no Israeli or Palestinian social safety net, 200,000 Palestinian workers in the West Bank paid a heavy price for the October 7 war.
The smiles on the faces of the 17 graduates of the beekeeping course were uplifting. The buzz in the room even resembled the hum of a beehive. Since the course ended in June, these women have been busy maintaining the beehive each received for her home. The certificate ceremony took place on September 9 at the “MAAN Workers’ Association branch in Baqa al-Gharbiya, attended by course graduates, the project’s leading team, and members of the MAAN’s women’s forum.
Journalist Hagar Sheizaf of Haaretz collaborated with MAAN to give a compelling presentation on the dire situation of Palestinian workers out of work for four months due to the war. Sheizaf quotes Assaf Adiv, MAAN’s Executive Director and also workers affiliated with MAAN who worked in Israel for dozens of years. These workers bare no responsibility for the October 7 terrorist attack, yet they pay the price. All of them demand to go back to their work places in Israel for the benefit of all.
The Letter (sent to the Israeli Gov. on Dec 14)
<The deal reached by Israeli farmers with the Ministers of
Written by Tal Miller, Mynet, “Yediot Hadera”, on June 2nd
Published on CAFOD’s website in April 8′ 2015 – Wafa was honoured by the council, for “her extraordinary effort and her difficult and insistent work for opening work places for women. For safeguarding their rights in the labour market and for strengthening their social status in the family and in society.”
The Independent Trade Union Centre WAC-MAAN, unionizing Arabs and Jews in Israel, calls on the Israeli government to stop the attack on Gaza. The only livable alternative is a political settlement based on a two-state solution.
Agricultural workers unable to work due to the wintry weather
The confiscation of bread from Palestinian stands at Jaffa Gate is the tip of the iceberg of a policy of economic abuse of Palestinian East Jerusalemites, a policy with the ultimate objective of Judaizing Jerusalem and stripping the Palestinian residents of the city from their rights.
