Trade unions file complaint against Israel over Palestinian workers' rights

A group of ten trade unions has filed a complaint against Israel with the International Labour Organization (ILO), accusing it of breaching international labour law by withholding pay from over 200,000 Palestinian workers.

The complaint demands unpaid wages and compensation for the workers, saying that workers from Gaza and the West Bank have not received payment for work completed prior to 7 October.

“Two hundred thousand workers in the West Bank lost their jobs,” Assaf Adiv, executive director of Maan Workers Association, an independent workers’ organization in Israel that was not involved in the filing of the complaint, said in comments reported by the Guardian. “They did not receive any compensation and have been suffering ever since from extreme poverty.