Posted on 10/06/21
| News Source: i24
Around 7,000 permits are being issued to workers, an increase since August's numbers
Thousands of Gazans applied Wednesday for permits to work in Israel, which is reopening its gates to laborers from the Palestinian enclave.
In Jabalia, a refugee camp in northern Gaza, a crowd of men holding their identity papers lined up hoping to obtain a permit to work in Israel, AFP journalists said.
"There is no work in the Gaza Strip," said Fathi Abu Nur, a 40-year-old unemployed man.
"I hope things will get better because the current situation is really difficult," the father of five said.
The total number of permits being granted by Israel to Palestinian laborers in Gaza is 7,000, an Israeli security official told AFP, up from the 5,000 workers and traders allowed in August.