Injured and Abandoned: Palestinian Workers Demand Fairer Treatment Palestinian workers force Israeli firm to pledge fairer treatment
When Khalil Shehab first began working for Yamit, an Israeli water filtration company in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial park in 1995, he did not anticipate that he would become a pioneer in the fight for equal labor rights.
The industrial zone, just inside the occupied West Bank and next to Tulkarm city, was set up as part of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Its name translates as “buds of peace.”
But while goods there are produced to Israeli standards, working conditions are not up to scratch. This is where Shehab got involved.