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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, September 28, 2024, p. 18
Brussels. Ten international trade union confederations yesterday denounced Israel before the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the alleged non-payment of salaries to more than 200 thousand Palestinians whose contracts were terminated after the outbreak of the war in Gaza.
According to the statement, more than 200,000 employees from the reoccupied West Bank and Gaza employed in Israel lost their salaries. due to the suspension of work permits and the unilateral termination of their contracts after the beginning of the conflict in October last year, which denotes flagrant violations of the ILO wage protection convention.
They have not been paid for the work carried out before October 7, nor have they been paid a settlementsupports the statement from the union organizations.
The text states that the ILO conventions are binding legal instruments, and Israel ratified the one relating to the protection of wages in 1959.
Therefore, they demand that the Israeli authorities repair and remedy these abuses, says the statement from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
These arbitrariness represent millions of dollars worth of income losses, causing severe financial insecurity, economic hardship, deprivation of basic services and widespread hardship for affected workers and their families, who lack access to judicial remedieshe points out.
New initiative for two states
Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Farhan, announced the launch of a new initiative, for the establishment of the State of Palestine and to obtain support for the application of the two-state solution, supported by the international community, before Israel’s refusal to continue the path of negotiations.
The Global Alliance initiative for the implementation of the two-state solution was unveiled during a meeting in which several countries in the region included in the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation participated, and will have its first summit in the Saudi capital , Riyadh.
