Israel announces 3,000 new Gaza work permits
The additional work permits for Gazans follows several Israeli measures aimed at easing border restrictions.
Israel will issue 3,000 additional work permits to Palestinians requiring entry from the Gaza Strip, Israeli defense authorities announced Wednesday.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli military liaison to the Palestinian territories, said the new work permits bring the total of recently announced permits to 10,000.
“The decision to increase the quota of merchants was made by the political echelon following a security assessment on the matter,” COGAT said in a statement.
COGAT said the permissions are “conditional upon the continued preservation of the region’s security stability for the long term.”
