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Palestinian workers ignore health risks to return to Israel for work

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Published: 5 May 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Essential workers to be let in when borders open; Palestinians in Israeli-controlled West Bank fall through cracks; asylum seekers face future without work

Coronavirus: Palestinian workers set to return to Israel despite health risks (Middle East Eye)
Israel due to open its borders on Sunday to let thousands of Palestinian labourers in 'essential sectors' return to work

Palestinians in Israeli-controlled West Bank fall through cracks of coronavirus response (Haaretz)
Palestinians in small villages of Area C don’t receive the services they need to combat the coronavirus from either Israel or the Palestinian Authority

Israel's efforts to contain the coronavirus move a new, long neglected hot spot (Haaretz)
The Bedouin town of Hura faces cultural and technological challenges all of its own

Portrait of a crisis: Asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv facing coronavirus (972)
The spread of COVID-19 has left asylum seekers in Israel out of work, crammed into uninhabitable apartments with exorbitant rents, and desperate for government assistance
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