Some 1250 Palestinians are permitted to enter Israel for work
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 12/18/2000

A Palestinian security official said that Israel has permitted some 1250 palestinian workers from Gaza strip to cross Gaza through Erez barrier to work inside the Hebrew state following a closure of three months time.

The commander of the Palestinian national security forces in North Gaza strip Maj. gen. Saeb al-Ajez said that " 1250 Palestinian workers were able on Sunday morning from joining their work in israel after they had been banned for three months," stressing that this number of permitted Palestinians into Israel is not enough.

Meantime, an official at the Palestinian ministry of Labor said that " israel has delivered the Palestinian side by the end of last week some 5381 work permits in Israel for the people of Gaza that we could not distribute all of them." He stressed that " this number is very small in comparison to the need of the Palestinian labor sector for work.

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