Palestinian human rights organizations reported today, Wednesday, that "no information is available regarding 1,000 workers from the Gaza Strip who were working in Israel at the time Hamas attacked Israeli towns and military camps on October 7." The organizations, including the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners Club, and the Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights, stated in a joint statement: "The number of workers from Gaza who were present in the occupied territories of 1948 (Israel) before October 7 was about 10,300 Palestinian workers."
The joint statement continued: "3,200 (workers) were released at the Karm Abu Salem crossing at the beginning of November 2023, some of whom still had plastic tags on their wrists bearing numbers, and were released from the detention centers where they were being held."
The statement added: "Approximately 6,441 workers were transferred to the West Bank, while around 1,000 workers remain missing in light of the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance against detainees from Gaza." The human rights organizations emphasized in the statement: "The occupation has refused to disclose any data regarding them, limiting its announcement to the existence of two military camps for detaining Gaza detainees, namely the Sde Teiman camp near Beersheba, and the Anata camp near Jerusalem. However, the places of detention are not restricted to these camps, as some of the workers were held in Ofer Prison."
