A Palestinian workman at dawn Sunday was injured in Qalqilya when Israeli forces attacked him and others as they were trying to reach workplaces in Israel (the 1948 occupied lands)
According to local sources a young worker called Ibrahim Hamayel a resident of Beita town in Nablus was injured in his head by a tear gas canister as he tried to cross the separation wall through a hole near Qalqilya city.
West Bank workers are always exposed to shooting detention and different assaults during their attempts to reach workplaces.
According to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank enter Israel every day for work but about a third has no choice but to risk entering without permits.
“They are caught between a rock and hard place: On one hand Israel issues permits sparingly based on arbitrarily chosen stringent criteria. On the other hand it prevents the development of an independent Palestinian economy by restricting imports exports industrial development and movement and by taking over land reserves and other Palestinian resources. This leaves Palestinians with no possibility to make a substantial living within the West Bank” B’Tselem said.
