APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 02 May 2021.
Palestinian employees of the security services -2005, take part in a protest to demand return to their works and their rights in front of the Council of Ministers headquarters
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manar Shaloula, media spokesman for the 2005 Ministry of Labor contracts
02.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samira Jiddian
STORYLINE
Palestinian employees of the security services -2005 are military employees who were appointed before the Palestinian division by a decision of President Mahmoud Abbas, since the first days of the division thier number was 12 thousand members distributed among the majority of the security services until their number has now decreased to reach 8 thousand after joining a number of them to work in the security services. Gaza government security
Since the Palestinian division in 2007, the Palestinian Authority cut the salaries of these employees for various periods, ranging from 4 months to a year and a half, then returned to pay them a flat salary of 1,500 shekels (about $ 450) only under the item of a social grant.
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