{"id":62250,"date":"2024-03-01T04:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/29\/we-do-not-have-many-options-growing-unease-over-recruitment-of-indian-labourers-by-israel"},"modified":"2024-03-01T04:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:33:13","slug":"we-do-not-have-many-options-unease-over-israels-recruitment-of-indian-labourers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62250","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We do not have many options\u2019: unease over Israel\u2019s recruitment of Indian labourers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel needs to fill the gap left by expelled Palestinian workers, and Indians are desperate to escape unemployment at home, despite protests from unions<\/p>\n<p>Construction noise is a near-constant across Israel; more high-rises join Tel Aviv\u2019s tech boom skyline every year, and new housing is badly needed all over the country, as well as in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Since the 7 October Hamas attack that sparked a new war in the Gaza Strip, however, building work has come to an almost complete halt.<\/p>\n<p>The industry relied on approximately 80,000 Palestinian workers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/03\/almost-400000-palestinians-have-lost-jobs-due-to-war-report-says\">who are now barred from entering Israeli territory<\/a>. As a result, half-finished residential blocks are everywhere, yellow tower cranes waiting motionlessly overhead. In the West Bank, poverty rates have soared.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/29\/we-do-not-have-many-options-growing-unease-over-recruitment-of-indian-labourers-by-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel needs to fill the gap left by expelled Palestinian workers, and Indians are desperate to escape unemployment at home, despite protests from unionsConstruction noise is a near-constant across Israel; more high-rises join Tel Aviv\u2019s tech boom skyl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2352,1644,62,1005,3039,212,399,2428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-industry","category-gaza","category-india","category-israel","category-israel-gaza-war","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-palestinian-territories","category-workers-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62251,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62250\/revisions\/62251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}