Der ligger en domstolskendelse om, at jødiske bosættelser i de besatte områder er underlagt samme arbejdsretslige bestemmelser som i selve Israel – men den håndhæves ikke i praksis af myndighederne, fremfører aktivist.
JERICHO, 18 June 2012 (IRIN): Some 10.000 Palestinian labourers are being exploited on Israeli-owned farms in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, according to Abed Dari, coordinator of the Palestinian workers’ project at Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO protecting labour rights.
Despite a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court in October 2007 that every Palestinian working for Israeli employers in the West Bank should be given the work benefits provided by Israeli law, this is not happening, Dari told IRIN.
“The high court decision enforced Israeli labour laws for Palestinians, which actually binds all settlements. But there is no enforcement. Israeli law sets the minimum wage at 180-190 shekels (46-49 US dollar) for a full work day,” said Eyal Hareuveni, an expert on the Jordan Valley from the Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem.
“Applying foreign law on the Pale-stinian workers as opposed to applying Israeli law on the Israeli workers violates the Palestinian workers’ basic rights and subjects them to discrimination,” the Supreme Court stated.
Palestinians have few options for independent economic activity in the Jordan Valley.
They are prohibited from using about 87 percent of the area’s land, which falls within Israeli-controlled Area C and is made available for the use of Israeli settlements and the Israeli military.
“There is widespread poverty resulting from the overall situation in the Jordan Valley and the isolation of the area due to difficulties to access land and other restrictions,” Isra Muzaffar, head of the central West Bank office of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told IRIN.
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