An interesting article in The Telegraph by Inna Lazareva on a plant in the West Bank showing how complex is our region: The (Israeli) plant employs roughly 500 Palestinians from the Occupied West Bank and #EastJerusalem, as well as 450 Arab Israelis and 350 Jewish Israelis. It makes gadgets for creating home-made fizzy drinks. For many of the Palestinians, working there involves negotiating a series of complex and time-consuming checkpoints between the factory and their homes in nearby Nablus and #Hebron. But the high rates of unemployment in the West Bank made it worth it, they said… Two key factors drive around 25,000 Palestinians employees to work in the settlements. The average daily wage earned by #Palestinian workers in Israel and the settlements was more than double that of the #WestBank private sector in 2012, according to a report by the International Labour Organisation. Unemployment rises to over 40 percent amongst 20-24 year olds in the West Bank #SodaStreams #ScarlettJohansson #Israel
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:36:23 +0000
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