GAZA: Israel has sent back thousands of Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, pursuing a crackdown on workers and labourers from the besieged territory, Arab media reported.
These workers had previously been given permits work in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Large numbers of workers went back from the Kerem Shalom crossing east of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Jamal Ismail, a worker from the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza said that they were used to serve Israel, work in houses, in restaurants, and in markets despite low wedges and humiliation.
Israel had previously issued more than 18,000 permits allowing people of Gaza to enter into Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank for better jobs.
Israel changes previous policy of offering jobs to Gaza people
However, Israel has changed its previous policy of offering jobs to the people of Gaza after a conflict between Israel and Hamas started on October 7.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in a statement said Israel is severing all links with Gaza and there will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza to be allowed to work in Israel.
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According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, the Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas conflict has reached 9,227.
UN officials say more than 1.4 million of Gaza’s total population of about 2.3 million have been displaced.
