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Article

25 Jul 2009

Author:
Hedva Isachar, Hagada Hasmalit [Israel]

Not Only in Tunnels, Not Only in Gaza

…Approximately half of the 16,000 Palestinians who work in tunnels in Gaza, [a recent] report contends, are youth and children. They work at difficult and dangerous physical labor for about NIS 10 each hour… Israeli labor laws are not enforced… Children under the age of 14 employed at a daily wage of NIS 50-60…employment is through sub-contractors, who pay the workers their salaries in cash and generally without salary slips… in the Jordan Valley, workers are employed for long hours in picking dates…women and children work without appropriate protection against the chemical sprays. if there are daring workers who demand… to have their legally recognized rights awarded, they are threatened with being fired.