Pakistan takes notice. And without the usual mustache cursing at the Zionist entity with which they’re at war, too! Truly we live in the age of miracles.
[Dawn] The moment Hussein got permission to work in Israel, the Paleostinian resident of Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
City said he was ready to quit university to seek the attractive wages offered for menial Israeli jobs.
"I felt that the doors of heaven were opened for me," said Hussein. Like other Gazooks who have abandoned their studies to take low-skilled work inside Israel, embarrassment led him to ask that his full name be withheld.
Gaza, a Paleostinian territory of some 2.3 million people under Israeli-blockade since 2007, suffers from an unemployment rate above 50 percent, where even those with post-graduate degrees can struggle to get by.
And Israeli work permits have become a rarity for Paleostinians in the last decade or so — making the few on offer seem like gold dust.
Hussein was pursuing a masters degree and hoping to boost his earnings potential, but said that with three children to feed and student debts of $3,500, continuing to study was proving untenable.
"I hadn’t worked in years," he said, explaining his decision to leave Gaza several months ago.
He got a job as a delivery person in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, one of several places in Israel where Paleostinian labourers say they can earn between 250 and 700 shekels (between about $75 and $215) per day, far more than most could hope for from equivalent work in Gaza.
Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, which is considered a terrorist organization by much of the West, took power in Gaza in 2007.
Before the Islamist takeover, roughly 120,000 Gazooks had permission to work inside Israel.
But Hamas and Israel have fought repeatedly over the last 15 years and, due latterly also to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic, Israel has at times fully closed its land crossings with the enclave while completely curbing cross-border work.
Since reopening a few months ago, the Jewish state has issued 12,000 work permits to Gazooks — mostly six month visas, with the option to renew.
The parking lot at the Erez crossing through which Gazooks enter Israel is now teeming with taxis and minibuses, waiting to take Paleostinians to work.
Among them was Mahmud, who found work at a restaurant in Herzliya, an affluent town north of Tel Aviv.
He had previously worked for international organizations in Gaza — highly coveted employers.
But he said ultimately he decided that he could not turn down the chance to earn up to 550 shekels ($170) a day, including overtime — on top of room and board — in Israel, even if the work had no connection to his masters degree in social work.
While many Gazooks welcome higher Israeli pay, the head of Gaza’s workers union, Sami al-Amsi, called for the permits to include mandatory social security protections.
Under current terms, workers from Gaza entering Israel are only covered for accidents if their Israeli employer agrees to pay for insurance — a rarity, according to the Israeli labour rights organization Kav LaOved.