Video testimony of a former Palestinian worker in illegal Israeli settlement built on stolen Palestinian land of Salfit.

 

Why Europe needs to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements – a letter from a Palestinian farmer

Two different legal systems are applied by Israel in the same geographical area, favouring Israeli settlers over the Palestinians who live just a few hundred meters away. Due to the continuous expansion of the settlements, I am afraid that I will no longer be able to enter my farm and cultivate it as I used to. It could end up annexed to an Israeli settlement, in preparation for the transfer of its ownership to Israeli settlers.  Read more...

The situation of Palestinian workers – Manal Shqair (New Unions)

Since the start of last April 2022, Israeli colonial authorities have been clamping down on Palestinian workers and the Palestinian people of the West Bank. This is exacerbated for Palestinian workers who work for Israeli corporations without permits. Lately, there has been an Israeli crackdown and blockade on the ‘open part’ of the Separation wall, which for years has been the route for tens of thousands of Palestinian workers who -despite being denied the Israeli permit – still crossed the border to go to work and access their main source of income. The need for Palestinian workers to cross the ‘border’ is a direct consequence of Israel’s systematic strangulation of the Palestinian economy and this crackdown on ‘illegal workers’ embodies yet another layer of systemic oppression on Palestinians who were forcibly made reliant on Israeli jobs. Read more…