Over the past two years, Kav LaOved( Workers’ Hotline) has received complaints of Palestinian workers employed in Israeli settlements, regarding the way they were evacuated from the workplace following work-related accidents. In a report issued last week the Israeli NGO…
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Kav LaOved on mass deportation of migrant workers in Israel
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From the current online newsletter of Israeli NGO Kav LaOved (Workers Hotline): On the first of July the Israeli government started implementing a mass deportation of migrant workers and asylum seekers. This gave rise to a fiery public debate on…
Not only in tunnels, Not only in Gaza
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In a shocking report published earlier this month about children employed in Gaza tunnels, Anwar, a 15 year old boy from Gaza, relates how he has been made redundant following destruction by the Israeli air force of the tunnel in…
PGFTU acts as Palestinian contractor threatens and harasses Palestinian workers in settlement
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The Salfit and Qalqilia branches of the PGFTU intervened on behalf of workers at a large textile factory in the Barkan industrial zone. Workers complained that they were fired from their workplace in retaliation for refusing to drop the charges…
Local and int’l pressure forces employer to recognize Palestinian workers’ rights
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The Israeli NGO Kav LaOved reports on an extraordinary victory for Palestinian workers who are employed in a factory based in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. It’s a story of how Palestinian workers teamed up with Kav…