[News] Israel forces thousands of Gazan workers back into Rafah

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Israel releases thousands of Gazan workers into Rafah
GAZA, (PIC) - November 3, 2023
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3,200 Palestinian workmen returned on Friday to the war-torn Gaza Strip
after being deported by the Israeli authorities.

One of the workers identified as Mansour Nabhan, a resident of Beit Lahia
in northern Gaza, was reportedly tortured and killed by Israeli officers
and sent on Friday with his friends into Rafah.

Their deportation came after the office of Israel premier Benjamin
Netanyahu said on Thursday night that the workers from Gaza who were in
Israel on the day of the outbreak of the war would be returned to Gaza.

The Israeli security cabinet also approved their return to Gaza, and
announced the severing of all contacts with Gaza.

“Israel is severing all contact with Gaza. There will be no more
Palestinian workers from Gaza,” a statement following a security cabinet
meeting said.

Footage showed some of the workers returning on Friday through the
Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem border crossing, east of the Rafah
border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Workers crossing into the Palestinian enclave said they were detained,
maltreated and assaulted by the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian
Authority security forces in the wake of the October 7 attack by al-Qassam
Brigades of Hamas. Some still had plastic stickers with numbers around
their legs.

The Israeli authorities also confiscated their cellphones, money and their
personal belongings.

“We used to work for them in houses, restaurants and markets in return for
the lowest wages and despite that, we were humiliated,” Jamal Ismail, a
worker from the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, told Al Jazeera
satellite channel.

Those from areas in northern Gaza would have to stay in the south after
Israeli forces reportedly cut off roads linking the two parts of the
coastal enclave late on Thursday, according to Palestinian officials.

About 18,500 residents of Gaza held permits to work outside the besieged
Strip before the war broke out.

The exact number of workers present in Israel when the Israeli war began
remains unknown, but thousands are thought to have been rounded up by the
Israeli army and police and transferred to undisclosed locations.
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