facility:zarfati garage

  • In West Bank Settlements, Israeli Jobs Are Double-Edged Sword
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/palestinians-work-in-west-bank-for-israeli-industry-they-oppose.html

    Ça commence comme une quasi révolution par rapport aux normes du New York Times,

    MISHOR ADUMIM INDUSTRIAL ZONE, West Bank — The personal conflict that thousands of Palestinians face working for Israeli companies in the occupied West Bank is particularly stark for Hassan Jalaita, who for 18 years has repaired Israeli Army jeeps at the Zarfati garage here.

    Those are the very same jeeps that confront Mr. Jalaita at the checkpoint he crosses each morning. The same ones that sweep through villages where his friends and relatives live. But those jeeps also help pay his $1,471 monthly salary at Zarfati, more than triple the minimum wage in Palestinian areas of the West Bank, where a 19 percent unemployment rate and lack of labor laws make finding a decent job difficult.

    “I feel like I’m not a human being — we are serving the occupation,” said Mr. Jalaita, 47, a father of five, two of them university students. “I am forced to work here because I have a house, I have a family. Tomorrow, if there is another place to work, if there is work in #Palestine, I will do it.”

    Pour terminer selon les normes,

    “These people are fighting against my right to work,” said Rashid Morra, 47, a father of five, who is the head of Lipski’s packing department. “You’re not going to get peace through boycotts. You’re not going to get peace through pressure. You get peace through working together.”

    Israel has 16 industrial parks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem with 1,000 plants and 21,000 workers, about two-thirds of them Palestinian. Other Palestinians have permits to work on farms or in construction in settlements, and within Israel’s 1948 borders.

    En gris israël, en orange les colonies.