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☆ Israel jail crackdown sets up showdown with Palestinian prisoners
  + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Ali Sawafta Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Ali Sawafta | Nidal Al-Mughrabi | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Ben-Gvir this week ordered a halt to Palestinian security prisoners working in bread bakeries in two Israeli jails, saying he was cancelling "benefits and indulgences". On Thursday, a state of heightened alert with reinforced staffing levels was imposed, a spokesperson for the prison service said. "He thinks that the prisoners issue is the easiest issue to show he is a serious leader," said Kadora Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society. Unless the standoff is resolved, he said, Palestinian prisoners will hold a mass hunger strike from March 22, at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, traditionally a time of heightened tensions. BOILING POINTIsrael holds about 4,700 political prisoners, around 30 of them women, according to the Palestinian Addameer organisation that supports prisoner rights.
☆ Palestinian workers strike as UN agency squeeze hits salaries
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Ali Sawafta Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Ali Sawafta | Nidal Al-Mughrabi | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] Palestinian kids pass a pile of garbage in Al Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/File PhotoRAMALLAH, West Bank Jan 25 (Reuters) - Schools, clinics and some municipal services in the West Bank were closed on Wednesday as workers went on strike for a third day amid an escalating funding squeeze on the United Nations agency that pays their wages. Around 3,700 workers in the West Bank joined the strike, demanding an across-the-board pay increase of 200 Jordanian dinars ($281.81) a month from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). "The strike will go on until UNWRA accepts our demands," said Jamal Abdullah, head of the union representing workers paid by the agency in the West Bank. "All indications point out that it is going to be a difficult year," said Adnan Abu Hasna, spokesman of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City.
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