The men in the wedding hall at the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank spend most of their days and nights glued to their phones, smoking, constantly refreshing their news feeds. They look exhausted, the horrors of the last few days clearly visible on their faces.
These 180 men – they are all men – are refugees from Gaza. They are among the roughly 18,000 residents of the enclave who have Israeli work permits and are allowed to cross the border back and forth. When the Israel Defense Forces shut all access to Gaza following Hamas’ deadly attack last Saturday, these men became stuck. Their wives and children are still in Khan Younis, a town in southern Gaza that is now the epicenter of its own rapidly unfolding refugee crisis, with no way of getting out.
There’s no work opportunities,” he said, adding that he had been unemployed since graduating in 2004 when he got the permit. Israel began issuing thousands of work permits for Gazans to cross into Israel as part of an economic incentive strategy Israeli authorities had hoped would deter Hamas from further armed conflict. His wife, who has an English degree, is also without work. He said he was spending every other week in Israel, where he worked at a bakery.
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