China agrees to send six thousand construction workers to Israel
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| Chinese workers in the port of Asdod - Occupied Palestine |
Beijing and Tel Aviv have come
to an agreement to alleviate the "housing crisis" in Israel by China
sending around 6,000 construction workers over a six-month period.
The joint statement was released by Israel’s finance and
interior ministries on Wednesday despite the agreement not being signed until
February.
Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon was quoted in the
statement as saying that the workers’ arrival would “energize efforts to solve
the housing crisis.”
“The Chinese workers will reduce the construction time, and
bring down prices for the benefit of the public,” said Israeli Housing and
Construction Minister Uri Ariel.
It is not known whether these houses will be constructed in
illegal settlements in Palestine's West Bank.
Housing costs in Israel have
been rising steeply since 2008, according to Bank of Israel data, significantly
impacting the cost of living and triggering a wave of street protests in 2011.
Kahlon, whose Kulanu party ran in the 2015 general election on a platform of lowering living costs, came under fire after an August government report showed apartment prices had risen by 8 percent in a year.
Replacement:
Since the second Intifada rise
in 2000, Israel has been trying to decrease the Palestinian labor work with a foreign
one mostly contracting with the Chinese private sector.
It’s worth noticing that the
Chinese government tried to keep neutral relations with Israel in order to
maintain its relations with the Arab world and the Arab gulf countries in
particular.
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