Israel announced that it would return to Gaza All sector workers who have been stuck in Israeli territory since Operation “Al-Aqsa floodlaunched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, and decided to “sever all ties” with the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Security Council said, in a statement on Friday night, that “Gaza workers who were in Israel on the day the war began will be returned to Gaza.” He added, “Israel is cutting all ties with Gaza. There will be no Palestinian workers from Gaza.”
Israel had issued work permits to about 18,500 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, according to the Office for Coordination of Israeli Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories.
Contacted by Agence France-Presse, Cugat did not immediately provide details regarding the number of workers from the Gaza Strip who were in Israel when the conflict began. Israeli media estimated this number at up to 4,000 people, most of them in the “Gaza envelope” areas, the southern region, Greater Tel Aviv, and the Negev.
And it was Israel Gaza workers are detained Those stranded in places whose locations were kept secret, and the coordinator of the occupation government’s activities in the occupied Palestinian territories decided, on October 10, to cancel all permits that he had issued to the workers earlier, and confirmed that they would not be activated again, and the decision turned the Gazan workers into “illegal residents.” “, which posed a threat to their lives in light of the war, as it gave the green light for the Israeli security services to pursue them.
Since last October 7, the Israeli occupation forces have launched intensive raids on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 9,000 martyrs, most of them children and women, and the injury of more than 21,000.