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"It is quite complicated for a Palestinian to get legal permission to work in Israel. The employer must apply to the authorities, providing the name of the worker to be employed. The security services check the worker's history - and there are criteria that anyway must be met: they must be over 35, have at least five children; and no security history, which means never having been arrested and preferably none of his relatives having such a record. If the license is granted, it goes to the Palestinian Authority Labor Affairs Ministry offices in the district where the worker lives, and the PA Employment Bureau hands over the license...."
Final Comments
About 2,500 military orders govern Palestinians, covering virtually everything from bank account withdrawals, to water rights, land transactions, opening a business, growing onions, to Order No. 1650 (Prevention of Infiltration) and Order No. 1649 (Security Provisions).
Effective April 13, they potentially facilitate the deportation of tens of thousands of West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinians and/or their imprisonment for up to seven years.
Those at risk have ID cards showing Gaza their birth place, others born in the West Bank or abroad who lost their residency status, anyone unable to prove their legitimate status, foreign-born spouses, and those Israel targets for any reason to expel them. Earlier, Israeli civil courts prevented deportations. Military ones now have sole jurisdiction.
Anyone in the West Bank or East Jerusalem "illegally" is an "infiltrator," as well as others there without lawful permits. Military commanders have sole discretion to incrementally or mass expel them, with no way to challenge as orders will come unexpectedly, providing no time to appeal. Deportations and/or arrests will follow, longstanding practices under repressive military occupation affording justice solely to Jews.
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