A group of parents in the Samaria city of Beit El kept their children home from school on Sunday following safety incidents involving Palestinian construction workers at a nearby work site, Channel 14 reported.
Parents raised their concerns after their children reported unwanted interactions with the construction workers and video footage showed the laborers walking close to the school’s playground without security.
In another incident, a teacher was “nearly killed” when a wooden beam was dropped by the workers, according to the Channel 14 News report.
After some two dozen students blocked the entrance to the work site with logs and stones on Sunday, they were reportedly threatened with arrest.
זאת הסיטואציה של ילדי ביתאל, כאמור מחנך כיתה כמעט נהרג מנפילה של קורת עץ מאתר הבנייה.
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On Nov. 2, the Jerusalem District Court overturned a lower court ruling allowing some Judea and Samaria communities to completely ban the entry of Palestinian Authority workers for security reasons.
The ruling ordered the city of Ariel to forward any request from business owners who seek to employ Palestinians to the Israel Defense Forces, which will have the final say on the workers’ admission to the area.
Before the start of the war on Oct. 7, 2023, around 200,000 Palestinians were employed in Israel, including 30,000 in Judea and Samaria towns.
A poll by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research carried out on Oct. 22-25 found that 59% of Arabs in Judea and Samaria believe the decision to carry out the Oct. 7 massacre was “correct.”
