A Palestinian workman was injured on Monday morning in western Tulkarem when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked him as he was trying to reach his workplace in Israel (1948 occupied Palestine).
According to local sources a young worker was injured by IOF gunfire as he was trying to cross the separation wall through a hole near the Taybeh checkpoint in the southwest of Tulkarem.
West Bank workers are always exposed to shooting detention and different assaults during their attempts to reach workplaces inside Israel.
According to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank enter Israel every day for work but the majority have 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.
