Israel to sever contact with Gaza, send back workers home

Israel has said that it is severing all contact with Gaza and will send back all the Palestinian workers employed on its territory to the strip.

Israel’s security cabinet made the announcement late on Thursday (November 2).

“Israel is severing all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza,” the cabinet announced.

“Those workers from Gaza who were in Israel on the day of the outbreak of the war will be returned to Gaza,” it said.

According to Cogat, Israel had issued work permits to over 18,500 Gazans before the Hamas’ October 7 attack, which triggered a full-scale war.