Gazans study Hebrew as Israel increases work permits
After Israel increased the number of permits for Gaza workers, merchants and workers are learning Hebrew at Gaza schools.
Israel announced Oct. 20 that it will increase the number of work permits available to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from 7,000 to 10,000.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said in a Facebook post that the decision was made after a security assessment that all of the recent measures announced by Israel depend on stability in the Gaza Strip being maintained.
From 2007 until late 2019, Israel prevented all Gazan workers from entering its territories. The ban has ended but even in 2020, only 0.1% of Gazans who held an Israeli work permit were allowed to enter Israel, according to a 2020 report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
Before Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Palestinian workers inside Israel stood at 120,000.
