Injured Palestinian construction worker left to die on Tel Aviv street -
By Yaniv Kubovich | Sep. 17, 2013 |
Haaretz
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A Palestinian construction worker who was seriously injured while doing renovation work in Tel Aviv on Tuesday morning was left to die on the sidewalk, apparently by his employer, without any attempt to assist him.
The body was found lying on the sidewalk outside 7 Ben Atar Street, in south Tel Aviv by passersby. The man was apparently a Palestinian laborer who was working in Israel without a work permit.
Eyewitnesses said they had seen the contractor arriving at the apartment where the renovations were being done. He noticed the laborer was apparently critically injured and, with the help of two workers, dragged the man to the sidewalk opposite and left him there, without helping him.
Hussam, a resident of Kalansua who was at the site, told Haaretz: “I’ve been working here for a long time and he’s been working in the same place for a week, for that contractor. I saw him working with a hammer and apparently something fell on him, or he was hurt, and he fell in a very serious condition. I saw the contractor running with two of his workers. He took him by the hands and the other two took him by the feet and they threw him onto the opposite sidewalk.”