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يدعو مركز الديمقراطية وحقوق العاملين في فلسطين إلى الإفراج الفوري عن عمال غزة المحتجزين لدى إسرائيل.

رام الله – 25/10/2023 – يدين مركز الديمقراطية وحقوق العاملين في فلسطين استمرار الاعتقال غير القانوني لحوالي 4000 عامل فلسطيني من قطاع غزة من قبل إسرائيل، ويدعو المجتمع الدولي والحركة العمالية الدولية للتدخل من أجل الإفراج الفوري عنهم.

منذ 7 أكتوبر 2023، قامت الشرطة الإسرائيلية وحرس الحدود باعتقال عمال غزة واحتجازهم في مراكز الشرطة ومن ثم في معسكرات الجيش في ظروف مزدحمة وغير صحية، مع حرمانهم من الطعام والماء لفترات طويلة، وفقًا لشهادات العمال الذين تم إطلاق سراحهم لاحقًا وترحيلهم إلى الضفة الغربية. في 10 أكتوبر، ألغت إسرائيل بشكل جماعي حوالي 18,500 تصريح عمل للعمال الفلسطينيين من قطاع غزة العاملين في إسرائيل، مما حول آلاف العمال الغزيين الذين كانوا يعيشون ويعملون في إسرائيل في ذلك الوقت إلى “مقيمين غير شرعيين” وفقًا للمنظور الإسرائيلي. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، تم اعتقال ما لا يقل عن 100 عامل من غزة، الذين وصلوا إلى الضفة الغربية، من أماكن إقامتهم المؤقتة خلال مداهمات الجيش الإسرائيلي الأسبوع الماضي في محافظتي الخليل وبيت لحم. يُقدر أن حوالي 4000 عامل محتجزون حاليًا لدى إسرائيل، في معسكر عناتوت العسكري قرب عنبتا ومعسكر عوفر قرب بيتونيا في الضفة الغربية المحتلة، وربما في معسكر عسكري إسرائيلي آخر في صحراء النقب.

نشعر بقلق بالغ إزاء ظروف احتجاز عمال غزة ومصيرهم، حيث يتم احتجازهم بمعزل عن العالم الخارجي. لم يُسمح للعمال بالتحدث إلى محامين، كما لم تؤكد اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر ما إذا تمكنت من زيارتهم أم لا. ولم تتمكن السلطة الفلسطينية أو جمعيات حقوق الإنسان من الحصول على قائمة بأسماء العمال المحتجزين وأماكن احتجازهم. في الواقع، قدمت ست منظمات حقوقية في إسرائيل، وهي مركز هموكيد، ومركز جيشا، واللجنة العامة لمناهضة التعذيب في إسرائيل، وأطباء من أجل حقوق الإنسان في إسرائيل، وعدالة، والجمعية الإسرائيلية للحقوق المدنية، التماسًا إلى المحكمة العليا الإسرائيلية في 23 أكتوبر 2023، تطالب فيه المحكمة بأن تأمر الجيش الإسرائيلي، وخدمة السجون، والشرطة الإسرائيلية بالكشف عن أسماء العمال ومواقعهم والإفراج عنهم.

لم توضح إسرائيل وضع عمال غزة الذين اعتقلتهم، ولم تقدم أي مبررات لاستمرار احتجازهم، سوى التصريح بعدم إمكانية إعادتهم إلى غزة. هؤلاء العمال مدنيون، ويعتبرون أشخاصًا محميين بموجب اتفاقية جنيف الرابعة. لقد خضعوا لتدقيق أمني دقيق من قبل السلطات الإسرائيلية قبل إصدار تصاريح عمل لهم، مما يعني أنهم لا يشكلون أي خطر أمني حتى ولو كان ضئيلاً.

في ضوء ما سبق، نحن قلقون جدًا من أن ظروف احتجاز عمال غزة لا تلبي الحد الأدنى من المعايير التي حددها القانون الإنساني الدولي، وأنهم معرضون لأشكال مختلفة من سوء المعاملة الفردية والجماعية. نخشى أيضًا أن يكون احتجاز عمال غزة قد تم بهدف استخدامهم كورقة ضغط من قبل إسرائيل، مما يعني أنهم يُعتبرون رهائن. وفقًا لبيان مركز هموكيد: “تشير الشهادات التي تلقاها مقدمو الالتماس من رجل فلسطيني احتُجز في معسكر عناتوت إلى أن ظروف الاحتجاز في المراكز كانت سيئة للغاية. تم احتجاز الرجل في إسرائيل في 8 أكتوبر لمدة ثلاثة أيام في هيكل يشبه القفص، معرضًا للعوامل الجوية، دون طعام أو ماء أو دواء أو فراش، ودون الوصول إلى مرحاض. تم نقله لاحقًا إلى معسكر آخر وصفه بأنه “حظيرة مواشي”، حيث تم احتجازه مع مئات العمال من غزة. وفي مرحلة معينة، قال لهم ضابط إنهم محتجزون بسبب وجود رهائن إسرائيليين في غزة، وأنه طالما ظل الرهائن الإسرائيليون في غزة، فلن يتم الإفراج عنهم”.

بناءً على ذلك، ندعو المجتمع الدولي والحركة العمالية الدولية للمطالبة بالإفراج الفوري عن عمال غزة المحتجزين لدى إسرائيل، ونطالب بإعادتهم إلى غزة أو إلى الضفة الغربية حتى يتم ضمان عودتهم الآمنة إلى غزة وعائلاتهم.


Demand a #CeaseFireNow for #GazaUnderAttack

International humanitarian law prohibits the targeting of healthcare personnel and health facilities and transport during hostilities and warfare. They must be protected at all times, as do the patients in their care.

Since October 7, 2023, through its uninterrupted bombing and shelling campaign on the Gaza Strip, #Israel has:

– killed 28 healthcare personnel while on duty or through the bombing of civilian homes

– of them, 10 paramedics have been killed and 27 injured will attempting to save lives

– targeted ambulances, of which 23 have been destroyed or damaged to the point that they can no longer be used

– damaged 15 healthcare centers

– fired white phosphorous shells at a children’s hospital (Al-Dura hospital), which had to be immediately evacuated

– damaged another two hospitals, Beit Hanoun hospital and Hamad rehabilitation hospital, which had also to be evacuated

– ordered 23 hospitals in the northern area of Gaza to evacuate, affecting about 2000 patients. Massive evacuation of hospital patients is not possible in a context where much of the civilian infrastructure has been destroyed and many patients cannot be moved.

– Gaza’s hospitals have been running out of medical supplies and fuel for generators, there is no space and no capacities to adequately care for the flow of injured

DO NOT STAY SILENT, especially if you are a #unionist and/or a #healthcareworker. Please share and speak out against the targeting of Palestinian #healthcareheroes , call for their protection, for an immediate ceasefire and for humanitarian aid to get into Gaza immediately.

PSI – Public Services International

النقابة العامة للعاملين في الخدمات الصحية – محافظات غزة

Sources of information: Palestinian Ministry of Health, UN OCHA Opt

Join us in calling for an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza_Under_Attack and an urgent intervention by the international community to prevent the forced transfer of Gaza’s population

* Humanitarian aid must be allowed into the Gaza Strip to provide medical supplies, food, drinking water, sanitation to the civilian population

* The week-long uninterrupted aerial bombing and shelling of Gaza had already killed 1537 Palestinians, among them 500 CHILDREN and 273 women by last night according to the Ministry of Health, and injured 6612 persons, including 1644 children and 1005 women. The Ministry also indicated that 44 families were in their homes by Israeli bombs.

* 423,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced according to the UN

* A couple of hours ago, Israel ordered 1.1 million Palestinians to leave the northern and Gaza governorates with 24 hours and not to come back before it says they can. This concerns about half the population of the Gaza Strip. The UN said it would be impossible. Furthermore, the forcible transfer of protected persons is prohibited under international humanitarian law. All member States of the UN and the Geneva conventions need to intervene urgently to stop any attempt by Israel to undertake a massive #EthnicCleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and prevent a new #Nakba.

We call upon the labor movement, civil society organizations and citizens worldwide to speak up and ask their politicians and governments to uphold international law and protect Palestinian civilians.

Please keep us informed about your solidarity steps and initiatives, and do not hesitate to contact us for any info you may need.

The Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center in Palestine denounces beatings and humiliating treatment inflicted by Israeli police, border guards and civilians on Gazan workers employed in Israel and calls for urgent labor movement solidarity

Ramallah, 11/10/2023 – The Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center in Palestine denounces an upsurge of acts of verbal, physical and economic violence against Gazan workers employed in Israel, which include arbitrary arrests, beatings and humiliating treatment by Israeli police, border guards and civilians, and denial of wages. The violence inflicted upon Palestinian workers from Gaza appears to be part of Israeli State-fostered and sanctioned retaliation and revenge against Palestinian civilians following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation by Hamas militants.

While the mistreatment of Gaza workers bears no comparison to the ordeal suffered by their families in the Gaza Strip, subjected to uninterrupted Israeli bombing and shelling since last Saturday, which has already caused thousands of civilian casualties (the latest Health Ministry updates indicates that over 1055 have been killed and 5184 injured, and more than 490 of the killed are women and children), it also constitutes a breach of international humanitarian and human rights law.

A 35-year-old worker from Al-Shuja’ia neighborhood, Salim, said that the Israeli police and border guards stormed the house that he and other workers had been renting for many months in Safad, destroyed their belongings, beat them up, handcuffed and blindfolded them. Salim suffered a broken hand and contusions all over his body. They were then transported by vehicle to an unknown location, while soldiers kept insulting them and using humiliating language in Arabic and threatening that Gaza will be wiped from the earth. Salim declared: “They put us in small rooms and cells in a police station, the place was very foul smelling. Ten workers were forced into cells made to accommodate three persons. For hours while we were detained, they kept interrogating us and denied us food, water and using the bathroom.”[1]

Several similar incidents have been reported in the past two days. Another worker told DWRC that he and others were beaten up inside an Israeli police station, before being deported to Beit Sira checkpoint in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate. After rounding-up and assaulting workers, interrogating and detaining them for hours in appalling conditions, Israeli police or border guards have been dumping them at checkpoints near Palestinian localities in the West Bank. Many workers have also reported being handed over by their employers or labor intermediaries to the Israeli police, especially in southern Israeli areas. All the workers that DWRC talked to in Ramallah said that their wages have not been paid. Some indicated that they are owed thousands of shekels for their work. They also said that the phones of workers rounded-up by the Israeli police, or handed over to the police by their employer, have been confiscated. “Lucky” workers were provided transportation by their employer or the labor intermediary to checkpoints leading into the West Bank, or have been able to reach them by foot.

DWRC condemns all acts of retaliation and revenge against Palestinian civilians, and is very concerned for the safety and well-being of Gazan workers, who are still in Israel, especially those with whom their comrades said they have lost all contact. We are also extremely worried by the immediate and long-term consequences of the steep rise of hate-speech, and dehumanizing anti-Palestinian discourse, by Israeli politicians, army officials, soldiers and civilians. Palestinian workers are already routinely victims of degrading and humiliating treatment by Israeli army, border guards, police and security agents at checkpoints, they have been regularly subject to arrest campaigns, shot at and killed for trying to enter Israel without permits, and subject to sporadic assaults by civilians, so violence against Palestinian workers trying to earn a living is not new and is well-documented. We are concerned that such violence will increase exponentially, and that workers might be massively laid off without compensations in the wake of current events.

We call upon the international labor movement to mobilize for the provision of international protection to Palestinian civilians, upholding the human rights of Palestinians, and to ensure that Gazan workers in Israel are protected from all acts of violence and are reunited with their families as soon as the situation allows.

We would also be grateful for any assistance to help provide for the urgent needs of Gaza workers stranded in the West Bank. While emergency shelter has been provided to them in community centers and some houses, conditions are already very crowded in Ramallah and more workers are arriving by the hour. Alternative accommodation will have to be found and many basic necessities will need to be provided, as workers were unable to bring anything with them. Workers we met with expressed urgent needs for clothing (especially underwear and night clothes) and shoes, as well as electrical cords and plugs, so they can charge their phones and keep in touch with their families.

For inquiries and further information, please contact:

Maryam Al Tibi,

maryam@dwrc.org


[1] Interview published in Al-Quds newspaper, page 4, 11/10/2023, in an article titled “Al-Quds documents workers’ testimonies after they were arrested, mistreated, and deported to Jenin”