Social workers have strongly urged all overstayers to take immediate steps to regularise their status within the stipulated time frame
Israel reopened on Sunday its only crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinian workers nearly two weeks after closing it over unrest, the defence ministry said.
“Following an assessment of the security situation, it has been decided... to open Erez Crossing for passage of workers and permit holders from the Gaza Strip into Israel, beginning Sunday,” said COGAT, a unit of the Israeli defence ministry responsible for Palestinian civil affairs.
12,000 Palestinians use the crossing with permits to enter Israel for work.
Israel had closed the crossing on May 3 ahead of Israel’s national memorial and independence days, and amid Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank, although the Gaza front was quiet.
Israel and Hamas, the militant rulers of the impoverished coastal enclave, have fought repeatedly over the last 15 years, most recently in May last year.
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A recent World Bank report put the unemployment rate in Gaza, a Palestinian territory of some 2.3 million people, at nearly 48 per cent, with work in Israel a vital lifeline to the enclave’s economy.
Social workers have strongly urged all overstayers to take immediate steps to regularise their status within the stipulated time frame
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