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Palestinian Workers life on an Israeli Checkpoint

Palestinian workers go to work in Israel. Nearly 10 thousand workers from different professions from Nablus, Jenin, Tubas, Jericho and Qalqilya go on Sunday morning, 2015/02/15, to Israel through Eyal crossing in Qalqilya. Workers suffer from inspection procedures operated by private Israeli security companies. Workers begin to go to the Israeli checkpoint at 1:30am Sundays and wait until 4:00am to start crossing the border -(Israeli checkpoint)- In two rows. Palestinian workers who allowed to work in Israel have to be married, over forty years old, and has sons, workers said. And they get permits to work in Israel through the Palestinian Ministry of Labour through coordinate with the Israeli authorities. Does not allow them to carry frozen water, Olive oil more than 500 g, Ben coffee and bottles of water and or any stuff been bought from Palestinian markets, in order to buy what they need from the Israeli markets while they are there to work. Most of the workers are returning to their homes located in the Palestinian territories with the weekend -(Thursday evening and go back to work with every Sunday early in the morning)- and stay to work for 5 days of every week. There are a number of women working in the field of agriculture, sewing and cleaning too, but they return everyday at the evening to their homes. We work in Israeli settlements in constructions and farming in Israeli-Occupied West Bank and in other Israeli cities near Tel-Aviv, Jaffa, Ashkelon and else. We do not have any other choices prevent us from it, Because we can not find opportunities to work in our places or any other place in the Palestinian territories, workers said. Eyal Check point, Qalqilya of the west bank of Palestine. (Photo by Mohammad Alhaj/NurPhoto)

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